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Detroit Post No. 384, 

DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN, 

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1896. 

THE RICHMOND & BACKUS CO., 
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('((iiimauder and Coiiirudes: 

The preparatiou of these iiieuioirs has been prompted 
by a desire that all members might have a knowledge of 
the personnel of the Tost that c-ould not in any other man- 
ner be gained, and for the pni*pose of recording many in- 
teresting facts and deeds in connection Avith onr service 
in the War of the Kebellion that Avould not otherwise be 
preserved. Some general information that was thonght 
wonld be of interest, and found only in special publica- 
tions not readily accessible to all, has also been included. 
The w^riter is especially indebted to Fox's "Regimental 
Losses" for much of this. 

Necessarily only a brief sketch of the service of each 
command is given, but there has been incorporated all the 
prominent achievements of the different regiments, bat- 
teries, etc., represented in onr membership so far as it 
has been ])()ssible to collect them, and mention also made 
of all the ]>('rs()nal experiences that wouhl be of general 
interest which have been reported. While it is not ex- 
pected that each member will be concerned in all that is 
said, it is hoped that every one may find something that 
he will learn with pride and satisfaction. 

It is a gratification to know that Detroit Post may fairly 
claim to have in its ranks survivors of some of the most 
noted regiments in the army, those which met with some 
of the hardest service of the civil war; and the subscriber 
will feel amply repaid for his efforts in compiling these 
facts if the knowledge that we have such heroes as associ- 
ates is gained from reading these pages. 
Fraternally yours, 

L. IT. CHAM BERLIN. 

Detroit, October, 1893. 



flftcinoivs of S)ctvoit post. 



On tlie eveiiiiiii' of the 5th day of May, 1887, a prelimin- 
ary ineetiuj'- was held in the parhn-s of the Michigan Ex- 
change Hotel, for the purpose of forming a new G. A. R. 
Post in this cit^, and a temporary organization was ef- 
fected- Committees were appointed to prepare by-laws, 
and to obtain additional signatures to an application for 
a charter, 31 having already signed. 

Pursuant to call, the next meeting was held on Thurs- 
day evening. May 26th, at the Citizens' Association Rooms, 
iu the Moffat block, at which time the organization was 
perfected, by-laws were ado])ted, and officers elected. On 
Friday evening. May 2Tth, at the Light Guard parlors, 
in the Fireman's Hall building, the officers were duly in- 
stalled by Department Commander L. G. Rutherford, there 
being 62 charter members present, 49 of whom were al- 
ready members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
18 were mustered as recruits. 

Three meetings were held at the same place during the 
month of June, and on Friday evening, July 29th, the Post 
met for the first time in its hall on the third floor of the 
Cowie building, corner of Gratiot avenue and Farrar 
street. Regular semi-monthly meetings were held during 
the succeeding two years, on the first and third Friday 
cA^enings for a time, and later on the first and third Wed- 
nesdays. Tuesday evening, August loth, 1889, the Post 
held its first meeting at (Mawson's Hall, No. 96 Miami 
avenue, and this continued its abiding ])lace, with meet- 
ings on the second and fonrtli Tuesday of eacli month, un- 
lil llie fall of 1S9:;. 



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It then acquired, in coujimctiou with the Michigan 
Commandery, Loyal Legion, very desirable and commodi- 
ous quarters at Nos. 58 and 60 West Congress street, and 
on October 9th, 1893, occurred the "house warming" of 
the new home, at Avhich many of the wives and lady 
friends of the members were present. The buildiug is a 
new one, centrally located and convenient to all the lead- 
ing lines of street cars, making it easily accessible from 
any section of the city. The rooms are all on the ground 
floor, and consist of assembly room, parlor and library, 
billiard room, locker room, lavatory, etc., all of which 
have been fitted up in a handsome manner, and can be 
enjoyed undisturbed. We are indebted to one of our 
members for the entire furnishings of the billiard room, 
including a handsome and costly carom table. 

The membership of the Post is limited to 150, experi- 
ence having shown that large numbers are not usually 
conducive to harmony. It embraces ]n*incipally business 
and professional men, nearly all of whom have a personal 
acquaintance with each other, and the social feature is, 
therefore, a prominent one. This was one of the objects 
sought to be accomplished in its formation, and has re- 
sulted in largely increasing the interest of its members 
in the meetings, and proven eminently successful, as is 
evidenced by the history of the Post. Every member is 
not only a comrade but a friend of all the others, and the 
spirit of dissension has yet to make its apjiearance. A 
large number of original papers relating personal experi- 
ences while in the service, and all of a highly entertaining 
and instructive character, have been contrilnited by dif- 
ferent members. 

The uniform, or prescribed dress, when appearing as an 
organization, is a distinctive one, and consists of black 
Prince Albert coat, dark pants, white necktie, G. A. R. 
hat with gold cord, buff gloves, and Post canes. Each 



member is provided witli a liaiidsome gold badge ou wliicli 
the words "Detroit Post" are enameled in a circle at the 
top and bottom, and the tignres "384" in open work in the 
center, the badge being attaclied to a scarlet velvet rib- 
bon forming a striking and liandsome backgronnd. The 
elegant silk colors carried when on ])arade were provided 
by the wives, daughters and sisters of the members, with- 
out their knowledge, and i)res(Mited to the Post September 
12th, 1888, the ])resentation and an entertainment for the 
ladies being held in the parlors of the Detroit Light In- 
fantry. 

The first national encampment attended by the Post as 
an organization, was the one held in Boston in 1890, where 
it paraded on August 12th, with 10 men. At the Detroit 
encampment in 1891, the Post kept "open house" during 
the entire week, and entertained a large number of visit- 
irg comrades from every section of the land. It led in 
the annual parade of August 5th, serving as escort to the 
Commander-in-Chief, with over 100 members in line. 

The Post visited Washington in 1892, many of the com- 
rades being accompanied with their wives, making the 
trip in remarkably quick time by special train of Wagner 
cars, which Avas one of the finest and best equipped that 
ever left Detroit Headquarters in Washington Avere es- 
tablished at the Arlington Hotel, wdiere a generous hos- 
])itality was dispensed to all visiting comrades and their 
friends during the entire encampment. With four i)lat- 
oons, color-guard, and a full complement of officers, headed 
by a first-class band of music, it took a iiromineut part 
in the eventful parade of September 20th, on Pennsyl- 
vania avenue, acting as escort to tlie Department Com- 
mander of Michigan. 

In 1898 about 50 members of the Post, with I he band 
of the Nineteenth Ignited States Infaulry and a large party 
of friends, made an excursion by special train to Indian- 



a.polis, Ind., visiting the Soldiers' Home at Davtoii, Ohio, 
while en ronte. On September 5th, the Post paraded 
with the Department of Michigan, attracting nnich atten- 
tion, and receiving high praise for its fine military bear- 
ing and marching, and was spoken of as the best discip- 
lined and most attractively nniformed Post in the entire 
parade. 

Since the organization of the Post the names of 165 
comrades have been borne npon its roll. Of these 6 have 
died, 7 have been transferred, and 5 dro]j])ed; leaving 147 
members in good standing at the present time. 

There were 62 charter members of the Post. Sixteen 
joined in 1887; 16 in 1888; 22 in 1889; 9 in 1890; 21 in 1891; 
18 in 1892, and 1 in 1893. Of the entire membership, 81 
were mnstered in this Post as original members of the 
G .A. K., and 84 have been received by transfer from other 
Posts. 

Of the present membership 117 comrades were native 
born and hail from twelve different states, while 30 are 
of foreign birth and come from eight different conntries, 
as follows: Michigan, 43, (of which 17 were born in De- 
troit); New York, 38; Ohio, 13; Maine, 5; Pennsylvania, 4; 
Massachusetts and Connecticut, 3 each; New Hampshire, 
New Jersey and Indiana, 2 each; Illinois and Virginia, 1 
each; Germany, 10; Canada, 7; England, 6; France and 
Switzerland, 2 each; Scotland, Ireland and Prussia, 
] each. 

The present average age of the members, as shown by the 
descriptive book, is a trifle over fifty and one-half years, 
the youngest being forty-two, and the eldest sixty-three. 
This would indicate that the average age at the time of 
enlistment was about twenty-one years. From the army 
muster rolls of over 1,000,000 recorded ages, it appears 
that the mean age of all the soldiers in the civil war was 
Iwentv-five vears. 



All of the 14:7 members served as volunteers, 69 enter- 
ing the service in 1861, 53 in 1862, 9 in 1863, 13 in 1864, 
and 1 in 1865 — the latter as a musician at the age of four- 
teen. One member entered tlie United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1856, and one the Military Academy at West Point 
in 1860, and after graduation both continued in the ser- 
vice during the war. Twenty-one of tliose enlisting in 
1861 did so in the first month of the war, one of whom vol- 
unteered April 13th, the day succeeding the tiring on Fort 
Sumter, in a three months' regiment, re-enlisted for three 
years and again as a veteran, and was finally mustered out 
in November, 1865, after four years and seven months al- 
most continuous service. 

We have also a member born in a foreign land, who, 
being desirous of emigrating to this country in 1859, his 
father was first compelled to purchase a substitute for 
him in the German anuy. April, 1861, finds him a volun- 
teer in the regiment from Michigan, first mustered for 
three 3'ears, fighting under the United States flag. 

Eighty-eight different regiments or organizations are 
represented in our present membership, 78 of which were 
mustered for three years' service; 5 for one year, 1 for nine 
months, 1 for one hundred days and 3 for three months. 
Of these Michigan claims 31; New York, 14; Ohio, 12; 
Illinois, 7; Massachusetts, 5; Connecticut, New Hamp- 
sliire and New Jersey, 2 each; Rhode Island, Vermont, In- 
diana, Iowa, Kansas and Arkansas, 1 each; United States 
regular army, 2; United States colored troops, (officers of), 
2, and United States na^^^, 7. This does not embrace the 
additional regiments represented by 15 members wlio 
served in more than one command and were finally mus- 
tered out in those enumerated above. 

The different arms of the service were represented as 
follows: Infantry, by 92 members; cavalry by 28; light 



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artillery, 12; heavy artillery, 3; engineers, 3; sharpshoot- 
ers, 2, and the navy 7. 

We have 16 members who served a term of less than one 
year each; 22 who served for one jear and less than two; 
45 serving for two years and less than three; 49 for three 
years and less than four; 9 for four years and less than 
five; and 3 served for five years or more. The average 
term of service of 144 members was a trifle over two years 
and seven months, the shortest being three months and 
the longest five years and nine months. This does not 
embrace three members who served an aggregate of 47 
years in the regular army or navy, during the rebellion 
and either prior or subsequent thereto. 

Sixty-six commissioned oflicers gave orders which 31 
non-commissioned officers and 50 i:>rivates and seamen ex- 
ecuted. The detail of rank, inclvTding brevet, is as fol- 
lows: In the army — major-general, 1; colonels, 3; lieu- 
tenant-colonels, 2; majors, 6; captains, 22; first lieuten- 
ants, 14; first lieutenant and adjutant, 0; first lieutenant 
and quartermaster, 1; second lieutenants, 0; surgeon, 1; 
assistant surgeon, 1; cha]>lain, 1; sergeant majors, 2; quar- 
termaster sergeants, 2; commissary sergeant, 1; hospital 
steward, 1; first sergeants, 3; sergeants, 11; corporals, 10; 
musicians, 7; privates, 39. In the navy — Lieutenant-com- 
mander, 1; acting master, 1; acting ensign, 1; paymaster's 
clerk, 1; seamen, 2; landsman, 1. 

The causes of discharge from the service as reported, 
are as follows; Close of war, S5; expiration of term of en- 
listment, 26; wounds, 15; disability, S; resigned, 5; special 
orders, 3; retired, 1; act of Congress, 1; promotion in civil 
service, 1; now in service, 2. 

Colonel Fox, in his book, "Regimental Losses in tlie 
American Civil War," — an acknowledged authority — 
states there were 2,047 regiments in the Union army, and 
that in all there were 1,882 general engagements, battles, 



skirmishes or aflaii-s iu which at least one regiment was 
engaged. Gettysburg was the greatest battle of the war, 
the loss of life exceeding that of any other battlefield. 
Autietam was the bloodiest, more men being killed on 
that day than any other one day of the war. At Gettys- 
burg, Chaucellorsyille and Spottsylyania, the fighting cov- 
ered three days or more. At the Wilderness, ('old Harbor, 
Shiloh, Stone's Iliyer, Chickamauga and Atlanta the losses 
were divided between two days of fighting, but at Antie- 
tam the bloody work commenced at sunrise and by four 
c'clock that afternoon it was over. 



As regards loss in the Tnion armies the greatest battles 
of the war were: 

Date. Battle. Killed. Wounded. Mi.'tsing. Aggregate. 

July 1-3, 1863. Gettysburg 3,070 14,497 5,434 23,001 

May 8-18, 1864, Spottsylvania 2.72.j 13,416 2.258 18,399 

May 5-7, 1864, AVilderness 2.246 12.037 3,383 17,666 

Sept. 17, 1S62. (1) Autietam 2.108 9,540 753 12,410 

^[ay 1-3. 1863, ChaueelloTsville .... 1.60«i 9.762 5.919 17,287 

Sept. 19-20. 1S63. Chickauiausa 1,656 9.749 4.774 16,179 

June 1-4, 1864, Cold Harbor 1.844 9.077 1,816 12,737 

Dec. 11-14, 1862, Fredericksburj; . ... 1.284 9.600 1,769 12,653 

Aug-. 28-30, 1862. (2) :\rauassas 1.747 8.452 4.263 14,462 

Apr. 6-7, 1862, Sliiloh 1.754 8,468 2,885 13,047 

Dee. 31, 1862, (3) Stoue's Kiver .. 1.730 7,802 3.717 13.249 

June 15-19, 1864, Petersburg (assault) 1.688 8.513 1,185 11,386 

The number here given as missing includes the cap- 
tured; but the missing at Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor 
may be fairly added to the killed and wounded, as it repre- 
sents men who fell in an unsuccessful assault. 



(1) Not including South Mountain or Cranipton's Gap. 

(2) Includes Cliantilly, Kappabannock. Bristoe Station and Bull Run 
Bridge. 

(3) Including Knob Gaii, and losses on January 1st and 2d, 1863. 



The deaths in the Union army, from all causes, as offi- 
cially classified, were as follows: 

Cause. Officers. Enlisted Men. Aggregate. 

Killed, or died of wounds G.SO.t 103.705 110,070 

Died of disease 2,712 197.008 199,720 

(1) lu Confederate prisons 83 24,783 24,8G6 

Accidents 142 3,972 4,114 

Drowning 106 4,838 4,944 

Sunstrokes 5 308 313 

Murdered 37 483 520 

Killed after capture 14 90 104 

Suicide 26 365 391 

Military executions . . 267 267 

Executed by the enemy 4 60 64 

Causes known, but unclassified 62 1.972 2,034 

Causes not stated 28 12,093 12,121 



9,584 349,944 359,528 

There were 112 battles in the war in which one side or 
the other lost over 500 in killed and wounded. Eeo^iments 
or commands represented in the membership of Detroit 
Post participated in nearly all of these engagements, with 
losses varying from 24 to 447 men. Our roster of battles 
embraces almost every notable field of the war, and were 
fought in seventeen different states. 

Of the 97 different regiments or organizations repre- 
sented by the members whose names have been borne upon 
the rolls of the Post, all but 7 sustained losses in action 

(1) In addition to this number, there Avere 5.290 who died wliile 
prisoners, and who are included in the other items of this classifica- 
tion. The total number of Union soldiers who died while in the hands 
of the enemy according to this oflicial report was 30,156. The causes 
of their deaths are classified as follows: From disease, 24,866; wounds, 
2,072; sunstroke, 20; accidents, 7; drowning, 7; killed after capture, 104; 
executed by the enemy, 64; causes known, but not classified, 319; causes 
not stated, 2,097; total, 30,150. But. owing to the imperfect records 
kept at some of the Confederate prisons, the deaths are not all included 
in the foregoing statement. The mortality of Union prisoners, as 
shown by the graves, has been estimated at 36,401. 



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of killed or iiiortally wuiiuded; 83 losiiii;- uoL less tliau 25 
lives; 66 losing not less than 50; 40 losing not less than 
100; 17 losing not less than 150; and 10 losing 200 or over. 
The total loss killed in action or died of wonnds in the 90 
regiments was 9,121 men; died of disease and from other 
causes, nearly 16,000. Included among the latter are 
L606 death in Southern prisons, divided among 33 regi- 
ments — the only ones from which returns are accessible. 

Fox's table of "Maximum Losses in Killed" names 45 
regiments which embraces every infantry regiment in the 
Union armies that lost over 200 men killed or mortally 
wounded in action during the war. Nine of these regi- 
ments have survivors in Detroit Post, with an aggregate 
loss of 2.154 lives — an average of 239. One of our regi- 
ments (Fifth New Hampshire) heads the list with a loss 
of 295; another (Fifth Michigan) takes fourth place with 
a loss of 263; another (Sixty-ninth New York) sixth place 
with a loss of 259; and another (Sixteenth Michigan) 
eighth place with 247. This does not include one heavy 
artillery regiment, (First Massachusetts), which is repre- 
sented in the Post, in which the loss, killed or died of 
wounds, was 241, and which was exceeded in only four 
instances in similar organizations. We also claim mem- 
bers of five cavalry regiments in his list of nine, which 
lost the most men killed or fatally wounded in action. 
Our five regiments (First Maine, First Michigan, Fifth 
Michigan, Sixth Michigan and First New York Dragoons), 
occupy first, second, third, fourth and sixth places in the 
list; the greatest loss in any of the four regiments being 
174 men, the least loss, 130 men. 

We have representatives of three regiments in his list 
of 22, whose Dercentage of killed or died of wounds was 15 
or over, and who can fairly claim the honor of having 
encounterer! the hardest fighting of the war. One of these 
regiments sustained a loss of 17.1 per cent, (Sixty-ninth 



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New York); another of 15.8 per cent., (Seventh Michigan), 
and the third 15.2 per cent., (Twenty-fourth Michigan). 

Fox gives a table of 200 regiments which embraces ev- 
ery regiment in which the loss, killed or died of wounds, 
exceeded 10 ner cent, of the total enrollment. Members 
of Detroit Post represent 22 of these regiments, with an 
average percentage of nearly 13. 

He gives a table, "Maximum of Regimental Loss in Par- 
ticular Engagements," and names over 200 regiments, 
which includes eveiy regiment in the Union armies that 
sustained, in any one battle, a loss in killed or mortally 
wounded of 50 or more. Tw^enty-three of these regiments 
have representatives in this Post, 3 of which appear twice 
in the list. 

We have two regiments (Fifth New Hampshire and Fifth 
Michigan) in his list of 19, which embraces every infantry 
regiment in the service that lost Ifi or more commissioned 
officers during the war. We have also two regiments 
(First Michigan and Twenty-fourth Michigan) in his list 
of 11, which includes every infantry regiment that lost 8 
or more officers in any one engagement. 

His table, "Regimental Percentages of Killed in Par- 
ticular Engagements" (including mortally wounded), em- 
braces over 200 different commands. The minimum per- 
centage given is 10, and the maximum 28, and fairly indi- 
cates the extent of loss in killed to which a regiment is 
liable in battle. Regiments of Detroit Post are found in 
28 of these engagements, the highest percentage of loss 
being 22, and the average nearly 15. 

Sixty-nine different regiments are named in his table 
of "Maximum Percentage of Casualties," (vrhich includes 
killed, wounded and missing, the latter being mostly, if 
not all, killed or wounded men), whose percentage was 50 
or over in some one engagement. Nine of Detroit Post 
regiments are found in this list as follows : 



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111 the battle of Fort Doiielsoii, the Eleventh Illinois 
lost 50.1 per cent. 

lu the battle of Fredericksburg, the Sixty-ninth New 
York lost 53.7 i)er cent. 

In the battle of Chickamaui;a, the Fourteenth Ohio lost 
51.5 per cent. 

In the battle of Manassas, the First Michigan lost 55.6 
per cent. 

In the battle of Cedar Mountain, the Seventh Ohio lost 
59.2 per cent. 

In the battle of Antietain, the Sixty-ninth New York 
lost G1.8 per cent. 

In the battle of Shiloh, the Ninth Illinois lost 03.3 per 
cent. 

In the battle of Fredericksburg, the Fifth New Hamp- 
shire lost 63.3 per cent. 

In the battle of Gettysburg, the Twenty-fourth Michi- 
gan lost 63.7 per cent. 

In the last instance given, only the killed and wounded 
are included by Fox. The historian of the regiment, iu a 
book recently published, accounts by name for a loss in 
killed and wounded alone which makes the percentage 61, 
and a total loss including killed, wounded, prisoners, and 
6 missing, Avliich raises the percentage to 80 per cent. 

"Think of Avhat such extraordinary percentages imply. 
Perhaps their significance will be better understood when 
com])ared with some remarkable loss in foreign wars; 
some well-known instance which may serve as a standai-<l 
of measurement. Take the charge of the Light Brigade 
at Balaklava. Its extraordinary loss has been made a 
familiar feature of heroic verse and story in every land, 
until the whole world has heard of the gallant Six Hun- 
dred and their ride into the valley of death. Now, as the 
Light Brigade acc(uii])lished nothing iu this action — 
merelv executed an orchM- wliicli was a blunder — it must 



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he that it was the danger aud its attendant luss which 
inspired the interest in that historic ride. What was the 
loss? The Light Brigade took 073 officers and men into 
that charge; they lost 113 killed and 134 wounded; total 
247, or 36.7 per cent. A comparison of this percentage 
with those of the Union regiments in certain battles just 
cited, will give some idea of the desperate character of the 
fighting during the American civil war." 

In his i)ublication Fox devotes one page each to "Three 
Hundred Fighting Regiments," embracing every regiment 
in the Union armies that sustained a h)ss of over 130 killed 
and died of Avounds during the war. Detroit Post had rep- 
resentatives in 32 of these regiments. 

Included in our membershij) is one who served in the 
First Maine Cavalry Regiment, mustered into the United 
States service in October, ISGl, re-enlisted and served 
through the war. This regiment was engaged in over 40 
different battles where it lost one or more lives, and sus- 
tained the greatest loss, killed in action, of nny cavalry 
regiment in the entire army. It fought under Banks in 
the Shenandoah Valle}^ at Middletown, May 24th, 18(12; 
with Pope's army at Manassas, August 28th, and at South 
Mountain, September 14th, under McOlellan. In April, 
1863, the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac was organ- 
ized into one command and Gen. Stoueman was placed at 
its head. The regiment participated in the raid on the 
enemy's rear during the Chancellorsville campaign, and 
was engaged at Louisa Court House May 2d, with a loss 
of 1 officer and 25 men killed, wounded and captured. In 
the cavalry battle at Brandy Station, June 9th, under 
Pleasanton, it fought in Gregg's division, with which com- 
mand it continued to serve until the close of the war. At 
Aldie, June 17th, while leading a successful charge, the 
regiment lost 8 killed, including its colonel, and two days 
later fought at Middleburg, losing 10 killed, 18 w^ounded. 



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aud 12 missing. In tlie battle of Crettysburg, July 3d, it 
was engaged with a small loss, and at Shepherdstown, 
Va., July ICtli, lost 3 killed, 22 wounded and 8 missing. 
In April, 1864, Sheridan was placed in command of the 
Cavalry Corps, and the campaign of that year was marked 
by hard fighting and great loss of life, for this arm of the 
service. In March the regiment took part in the Dahl- 
green raid to Kichmond, losing 10 men killed, and in the 
iiction at Ashland, Va., May 11th — on the Sheridan-Rich- 
mond raid — 9 more men were killed or mortally wounded. 
At Cold Harbor, June 2d, its chaplain was killed, being 
struck in the breast by a shell and "literally blown to 
pieces." On the Trevilian raid, at St. Mary's Church, 
June 24th, it made a desperate fight against great odds, 
losing 10 officers and 56 men killed, wounded and missing, 
out of 260 engaged. It lost 8 killed, 25 wounded, and 2 
missing at Deep Bottom, August 14th. Another hard 
fight occurred at the Boydton Road October 27th, where 
it lost 9 killed, 56 wounded, and 12 missing. The regi- 
ment sustained its severest loss at Dinwiddie Court House 
March 31 st, 1865 — Gen. Crook commanding the division — 
in which engagement it lost 20 killed, 55 wounded and 6 
missing. In the final campaign it had 20 men killed at 
Deatonsville and Sailors' Creek April 6th, Farmville April 
7th and Appomattox April 9th. Its loss during its term 
of service, killed in action or died of wounds, was 15 offi- 
cers and 159 men. Like all cavalry commands, many 
members of the regiment were captured while on outpost 
duty, or while foraging within the enemy's lines. Of 
these 145 died of disease while in Confederate prisons. 

We have six survivors of the First Michigan Cavalry 
Regiment, which entered the service in Sei)tember, 1861, 
veteranized in December, 1863, and served through the 
war. It participated in nearly 40 different engagements 
in which it had' men killed, ;nid in mnnv others where it 



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lost men wounded or captured, sustaining the second 
greatest loss in battle, killed or fatally wounded, of any 
cavalry regiment in the war. The regiment served with 
Banks in the advance up the Shenandoah Valley in Marcli, 
1862, and took a large share of the cavalry lighting in that 
campaign lasting until June. At Winchester, May 24th, 
it lost 10 killed and 20 wounded and missing. It then 
marched with Banks' command to join Pope's army in the 
vicinity of Culpeper, and took part in the battle of Cedar 
Mountain August 9th. At that time the following inci- 
dent occurred, as related by one of our members, then an 
officer in this regiment : 

"About a week after the battle of Cedar Mountain, my 
regiment, with one other, was sent out on a cavalry recon- 
noissance towards Louisa Court House. After an all 
night's march, at about four o'clock a. m., I gave chase to 
two horsemen, firing my revolver at them. The alarm 
awoke a party of Confederate officers who had been pass- 
ing the night at a farm house, one of whom, as was after- 
wards proven, was Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. The officers es- 
cai)ed to the woods in rear of the house, but in their 
hasty departure left their personal effects behind. Among 
the booty secured was found many valuable papers, in- 
cluding an order from Gen. Lee assigning Stuart to the 
command of his advance cavalry forces, and outlining the 
( ontemplated forward movement of his army which cul- 
minated in the Maryland cam|)aign. It is believed that 
this information, which was promi)tly forwarded by cour- 
ier to Gen. Pope, caused him to withdraw his forces from 
the line on the upper Rappahannock, and the authorities 
to concentrate the army near Manassas, in the vicinity of 
which was fought the series of battles that immediately 
followed and saved Washington from capture." 

At Manassas, August 30th, the regiment lost 8 killed, 
13 wounded and 97 captured. Its colonel fell mortallv 



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wounded while leading; a charjie. After this battle, aud 
diiriug the early ]>ait of 18(13, it was engaged in grand 
guard duty in frcmt of the defenses of Washington. In 
June, 18G3, the regiment was assigned to the Michigan 
C'avalry Brigade, then comiMjsed of the Fifth, Sixth and 
Seventh regiments, all of which have living representa- 
tives in this Post. Oeu. Custer was shortly after placed 
in command of the brigade, aud it at once became famous 
for its memorable charge at Gettysburg July 3d, against 
a superior force, aud which its general commanding pro- 
nounced "uue<]ualed for brilliancy and gallantry in the 
annals of warfare." It sustained the heaviest loss of any 
cavalry brigade in that battle, the First regiment losing 
10 killed, 13 wonuded aud 20 missing, out of 300 engaged; 
the Fifth losing 8 killed, 30 wounded and 18 missing, and 
the Seventh IG killed, 41 wounded and 21 prisoners or mis- 
sing. At Falling Waters, Md., on July 11th, a squadi(ui 
of the Sixth regiment made one of the most remarkable 
and gallant cavalry charges of the war, attacking a Con- 
federate division which was intrenched to cover the cross- 
ing of troops over the Potomac. The outer line of works 
was carried aud the men leaped their horses over the inner 
line, but were obliged to retreat with a loss of 23 killed, 
33 wounded and 23 missing; among the killed were the 
nuijor commanding and two other officers. The brigade 
also suffered severe losses at Summei'v^ille Ford, Va., Sep- 
tember 16th, Brandy Station October 12th and Buckland's 
Mills October 19th. After participating in the Kilpatrick- 
Dahlgreen raid to Richmond in March, 18(51, the brigade 
entered the spring campaign under Sheridan. Its losses 
from May 1th to June 30th Avas 5 officers and 89 men 
killed, 10 officers and 311 men wounded, and 1 olKicers and 
275 men ca])tured or missing; many of the latter were 
killed or wounded. At TIawe's Shop May 28th the brigade 
fought dismouiiled; tlie Fifth losing 55 killed aud wonuded 



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out of 151 engaged, and the Sixth 16 killed and 19 wounded 
out of 140 taken into action. The Fifth Regiment met with 
its heaviest loss in the cavalry affair at Trevilian Station 
June lltli, where, in addition to the killed and wounded, 
136 were taken prisoners — the regiment having charged 
too far through an opening in the enemy's lines, and being- 
cut off from the rest of the brigade was obliged to cut its 
wa}' out. In this engagement the First Regiment lost 17 
killed and mortally wounded; the Fifth 21, and the Sixth 
18. While on the Sheridan "Richmond raid" the Seventh 
lost at Yellow Tavern May 11th 13 killed, including the 
Major commanding. In this engagement the rebel gen- 
eral Stuart received his death wound from a shot fired by 
a soldier of the Fifth. Early in August the brigade was 
ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, where it participated 
in the brilliant cavalry tighting that followed. During 
the succeeding four months it was engaged in fourteen 
different battles and affairs Avhich caused the loss in its 
ranks of one or more lives; losing at Opequon September 
19th and Cedar Creek October 19th 46 in killed or mortally 
wounded. Upon Sheridan's return to Petersburg, the 
brigade started on tlie final campaign of 1865, and took a 
prominent and meritorious part in the operations which 
culminated in the surrender of Lee's army. After the war 
liad ended the brigade was ordered to the far west, where 
it was engaged fighting Indians until November, 1865, 
when it was mustered out of service. The recruits, previ- 
ously consolidated into one regiment, were not discharged 
until March, 1866. During their terms of service the First 
Regiment lost in killed and died of wounds 14 officers and 
150 men; the Fifth lost 6 officers and 135 men; the Sixth 
lost 7 officers and 128 men; and the Seventh 4 officers and 
81 men. The brigade sustained the highest percentage 
of loss killed in action of an}- brigade in the mounted ser- 
vice during the war. Three hundred and thirteen of its 



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iiieiiibei's also died while eoiittiied in SouUieru prisous. 
The First Regiment was recrnited at Detroit in August 
and September, 18C1, and left the State September 29th, 
with 1,144 officers and men on its rolls; the Fifth was or- 
ganized at Detroit in August, 18G2, leaving the State De- 
cember 4th, 1,144 strong; the Sixth Avas miistered into 
the United States service at Grand Rapids October 13th, 
1862, and left the State December 10th with a roster of 
1,229; and the Scn'enth rendezvoused at Grand Rapids, the 
first battalion leaving the State February 20th, 18G3, and 
the remaining companies in May following. 

Among our members are two who sensed in the Second 
Michigan Cavahy, mustered in October 2d, 18(31, and in 
March, 18G4, over 300 of the regiment re-enlisted as veter- 
ans. It was actively employed, during its entire term of 
service, fighting and scouting in the States of Missouri, 
Mississippi, Kentucky, ^^irginia, Tennessee, Georgia and 
Alabama. During the year 1864 it marched nearly 1,400 
miles, exclusive of marches when on picket and outpost 
duty. It first met the enemy in a skirmish at Point Pleas- 
ant, Mo., March 9th, 1862, and its last encounter was at 
Talladega, Ala., April 23d, 1865, where it lost two men 
killed. It was under fire in nearly 70 different jJlaces, 
including a si)irited fight at Boouville, Miss., July 1st, 
1862, under Sheridan, then colonel of the regiment. It 
])articipated in the capture of Island No. 10, siege of Cor- 
inth and battles of Perryville, Ky., Thompson's Station, 
Tenn., Chickamauga, Ga., Franklin, Tenn., and Nashville, 
Tenn. Its last service was in the cavalry raid of Wilson's 
corps in Alabama and Georgia March 22d to April 24th, 
1865, where it had several sharp confiicts with Forrest's 
command and other rebel forces, and aided in the capture 
(*f a large amount of war nuiterial and stores. This regi- 
ment bore on its roster the names of four officers who were 
afterwards among the most distinguished generals of the 



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war. It lost, while iu the service, 2 officers aiKl 72 iiieit 
killed in action or died of wounds. 

We have those who belonged to the Third Regiment 
Michigan Cavahy, that took the field in November, 1861,. 
11 nd whose first service was in the movement ag-ainst New 
Madrid, Mo., March 13th, 1862. After the capture of 
Island No, 10 it joined in the advance on Corinth, Miss.,, 
taking part in the action at Farmington, Miss., May 5th,. 
and siege of Corinth until its evacuation May 2iyth. It 
then entered on the campaign under Rosecrans, partici- 
pating in the battles of luka September I9th, ami C^orinthr 
October 3d and Ith. For the succeeding twelve months' 
ii was employed in scouting and in various expeditions- 
throughout Northern Mississippi and Western Tennesseev 
and had frequent encounters with the enemy, including- 
a sharp fight at Jackson, Tenn., July IStli, 1863; at Gren- 
ada, Miss., August 14th, and at Wyatfs Ford October 
13th. In January 1864, the regiment re-eiiFisted, and 
upon the expiration of its veteran furlough was ordered to 
Little Rock, Ark., and after being mounted August 1st 
was engaged for some months scouting through that State-. 
In March, 1865, it was transferred to the cammaud of Gen. 
Canby at New Orleans, aud took part in the land opera- 
tions against Mobile. After the fall of Mobile it was se- 
lected as a part of Sheridan ^s forces for the expedition to* 
Texas, and marched to San Antonio, where it was sta- 
tioned until ordered home for muster out in Februarjv 
1866. During its term of service the regiment lost 3 offi- 
cers aud 27 men killed in acti<m or fatally wounded. 

Our rostei" in-chides three members serving iu the Fourth 
Cavalry Regiment from Michigan, organized in 1862, anJ 
mustei'ed in August 29th, Avliich expei-ienced three ^'T'TITs 
of arduous marching and fighting in Kentucky, Teinies- 
see, Georgia and Alabama. During its term of siei'vice it 
inetthe-eueirfv no less than 92 different times; ami nKii'died 



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i: early 7,000 miles, lucluded iu its uuiuerous eucouuters 
are the battles of Stone's River, Cliickamauga and Chat- 
tanooga. It took an active part in the campaign preced- 
ing the fall of Atlanta in 1864, sustaining severe losses at 
Kinston, Ga., May 18th, and Lattiniore's Mill June 20th. 
in the latter engagement it lost 11 killed, 25 wounded and 
11 missing. In March, 1805, the regiment started with 
Wilson's Cavahy Corps on the raid through Alabama and 
Georgia, participating in the engagement at Selma, Ala., 
April 2d, and ca])ture of a large number of prisoners, artil- 
lerj, ammunition and stores. Its service ended with the 
capture of Jeff Davis near Irwinsville, Ga., May 10th, 1865, 
by which it gained a national reputation and a world-wide 
notoriety. The officer who personally captured the ex- 
rebel chieftain, and who first discovered him in the dis- 
guise of a female attempting to escape from the camp 
in which he waK found, is one of the three members of 
this Post above referred to. He has published, for the 
archives of the Loyal Legion, a detailed and very inter- 
esting account of this dramatic episode. Three officers 
and 48 men of the regiment were killed or mortally 
wounded in battle during its term of service. 

On our membershi]^ roll are those who served in the 
Eighth Michigan Cavalry, mustered into the United 
States service May 2d, 1863, and took an active part in the 
pursuit of Morgan while on his famous raid in Kentucky, 
Ohio and Indiana during July. While engaged in this 
movement the regiment marched nearly 600 miles in 16 
daj's, and had several skirmishes with Morgan's troopers. 
The greater part of these raiders w^ere captured after a 
sharp engagement at Buffington Island, Ohio, July 19th, 
and the remaining force, with their leader, surrendered 
.Inly 26th, near Salineville, Ohio. The regiment then 
took part in the advance into East Tennessee, where it 
had frequent encounters with the enemy. At Calhoun 



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aud Athens September 26th and 27th, it lost 43 men killed, 
Avounded and missing, and at Sweetwater, October 26th, 
1 killed and 7 wounded. It participated in the fight at 
Campbell's Station November 16th and in the si^ge of 
Knoxville November 17th-December 4th. In June, 1864, 
it joined the command of Gen. Stoneman, with which it 
took part in the advance to Atlanta. In July it partici- 
pated in the Macon raid, and in the engagement at Clin- 
ton, Ga., on the 31st, where a large portion of the com- 
mand were surrendered by Stoneman. This regiment, 
with some other troops, succeeded in getting away, but 
were finally overtaken near Athens, Ga., xiugust 3d, and 
the majority captured. The regiment lost in killed, 
wounded and prisoners 215 officers and men out of about 
300 who went on the raid. In October it was ordered to 
Nashville and attached to Thomas' army to repel Hood's 
invasion of Tennessee. It took an active part in the fight- 
ing near Columbia in November, sustaining severe losses 
on the 23d, 24th and 28th, and was present at the battles 
of Franklin on the 30th and of Nashville December 15th 
and 16th. During its term of service the regiment lost 1 
officer and 45 men killed in action or died of wounds. 

Our membership includes those serving in the Tenth 
Michigan Cavaliw, organized in October, 1863, and whose 
principal field of action was in Tennessee during the year 
1864. Its time was fully employed in scouting and fight- 
ing, and it participated in upwards of 50 different engage- 
ments and skirmishes with the enemy. The regiment at- 
tained a notable achievement in the successful defense 
of Strawberry Plains, East Tennessee, August 24th, 1864, 
by only a small portion of the commaud, ag"-ainst an assault 
of the entire rebel cavaliy corps, under Wheeler, number- 
ing over 6,000 men and 6 pieces of artillery. It also suc- 
cessfully repulsed Breckenridge's attack with infantry, 
cavalry and artillery at the same place November 17th, 



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with only about oiie-sixth the nuiuber of the jittackinjj;' 
forces. In March, 1865, it joined the command of Gen. 
Stoneman in the cavalry raid from East Tennessee into 
Southwestern Yirj^inia and North Carolina, enjj^an^inj^ the 
enemy in several places, and burning a large number of 
railroad bridges and destroying a vast (luantity of sup- 
plies. The regiment was then employed in aiding to pre- 
vent tlie escape of Jeff Davis, and materially contributed 
to his capture, which occurred soon after. During its term 
of service the regiment lost 2 officers and 29 men killed in 
battle or fatiilly wounded. 

^Ve have those who were members of the Eleventh 
Michigan Cavalry, which took the field in January, 1864, 
• with headquarters at Lexington, Ky. In May it started 
with Gen. Burbridge's command in pursuit of Morgan, 
then invading the State, encountering liis foi-cc^s at Mt. 
Sterling June 9th, and again at Cynthiana on the 11th. 
In Se])tember it i)articii)ated in the caA^alry raid into West- 
ern Mrginia, and on October 2d, had a stubborn tight near 
Saltville, Va., where its lieutenant-colonel commanding 
vras killed. Returning to Lexington after a long and wear- 
isome march, it was actively employed hunting guerillas, 
scouting and foraging. On December 11th it moved Avith 
the command of Gen. Stoneman on the raid from Bean's 
Station, East Tennessee, to Saltville, Va., skirmishing 
with the enemy in several places, and at Marion, Va., De- 
cember lltli, had a sharp encounter with Breckenridge's 
forces, losing 2 officers and 5 men killed. On the 20th 
Saltville was captured and the salt works com]detely de- 
stroyed, together witli a large amount of stores and sup- 
plies. The regiment again returned to Lexington, where 
it remained until March, 1865, when it joined (len. Stone- 
man's cavalry corps at Knoxville, and took i)art in the 
expedition through East Tennessee, North Carolina, South 
Carolina au<l "GcMti-gia, to dismantle the railroads in that 



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section. It had numerous encounters with the enemy 
while on the campaign, and aided in the capture of a large 
number of prisoners, and destroying a vast quantity of 
war material and public property. It Avas then ordered 
to join in the pursuit of Jeff Davis, and captured a portion 
of his cavalry escort near Washington, Ga., May lltli. 
The regiment lost, while in the service, 4 officers and 24 
men killed or mortally wounded in action. 

Our rolls bear the names of those who served in the 
Third Massachusetts Cavalry, mustered into the United 
States service August to November, 18(32, as the Forty- 
first Massachusetts Infantrj^ On December 4tli, the regi- 
ment sailed from New York City for New Orleans, and was 
placed on dut}^ at Baton Kouge, La. With Grover's div- 
ision. Nineteenth Corps, it took part in the "Teche cam- 
paign," and in the actions at Fort Bisland, La., April 13th, 
and Irish Bend April 14th. The investment of Port Hud- 
son was accomplished in the following month, aud two 
unsuccessful attempts were made to carry the enemj^'s 
works by assault. On June ITtli the designation of the 
regiment was changed to Third Massachusetts Cavalry. 
After the surrender of Port Hudson, July 9th, the regi- 
ment remained in that vicinity, engaged in scouting and 
outpost duty until January, 18G4. It then returned to 
New Orleans, aud on March 10th started with Banks' 
command on the Red River expedition, participating with 
the cavalry division in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, 
La., April 8th, Pleasant Hill April 9th, Alexandria May 
1st, and in several minor affairs while on the campaign. 
After the failure of the expedition the regiment was or- 
dered to Morganzia, La., and on June 25th was dismount- 
ed and equipped as infantry. It then moved to New Or- 
leans aud embarked for Fortress Monroe, Va., thence to 
Washington. On August 4tli, it proceeded to Harper's 
Ferry and joined Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah 



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\'alley caiiipaij^u, iiud iu the battles of Opequou, Fisher's 
Hill and Cedar Creek, encountered some of the hardest 
fighting of its Avhole experience. At Opequon (Winches- 
ter) September 19th— iu Grover's division — it lost 19 
killed and 87 wounded; 40 of the latter afterwards died of 
their wounds. The regiment was then ordered to Pleas- 
ant Vallev, Md., where it remained in camp until Febru- 
ary 24th, 1865, haviug been again mounted and equipped 
as cavalry. In March it returned to the Shenandoah Val- 
ley and was engaged in scouting and outpost duty until 
April 20th, when it moved to Washington. After partici- 
pating in the grand review May 23d it was ordered to St. 
l.ouis. Mo., thence to Fort Leavenw^orth, Kan., and from 
July 27th to August IGth marched to Fort Kearney, Neb., 
and to Cottonwood Springs, Col. On August 29th it 
started on the return via Fort Kearney to Fort Leaven- 
worth, where it was mustered out September 28th. While 
in the service the regiment sustained a loss of 5 officers and 
101 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 

We have those who saw service in the Second Missouri 
Cavalry (Merri'ii Horse), organized at Benton Barracks, 
St. Louis, Mo., September to December, 1861, a portion of 
the regiment participating iu Fremont's Missouri cam- 
j-aign from September to November before being thor- 
oughly organized and equipped. It was placed on duty 
in the district of Northeastern Missouri, and the Rolla 
district until June, 1863, constantly employed operating 
against guerillas, with organized bands of which it had 
many sharj) conflicts. Included among these was a brisk 
fight at Memphis, July 18th, 1862, where tlie regiment lost 
30 men killed and 4 officers and 31 men Avounded. From 
July to September, 1863, it was engaged in Davidson's 
expedition to co-operate with Steele against Little Rock, 
Ark., having numerous encounters with the enemy, and 
taking a ])romiuont ])art iu the capture of Little Rock and 



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pursuit of Price. In March, 1864, it joined the expedition 
of Steele to Camden, Ark., skirmisliing- with the enemy in 
a number of places, and particiiDating in the battles of 
Mark's Mills April 25th, and Jenkin's Ferry April 30th. 
In September the regiment was attached to Pleasanton's 
cavalry command, with which it operated to repel the in- 
vasion of Price into Missouri, and was engaged in the 
actions at Boonville, Little Blue and Independence, Mo., 
and several other minor affairs. In January, 1865, it was 
ordered to the Department of the Tennessee, where it re- 
mained on duty until September, when it was mustered out 
of service. Its loss, killed in action and fatally wounded, 
was 3 officers and 53 men. 

Our roster includes those who were members of the 
First New Hampshire Cavalrj-, four companies of which 
were organized as a battalion in October, 1861, and at- 
tached to another command. In January, 1864, this bat- 
talion was ordered home as a nucleus for the First New 
Hampshire Cavalry. Seven companies of the reorganized 
regiment were ordered to Washington April 23d, and at- 
tached to Wilson's division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the 
Potomac, joining the army in the field at Cold Harbor, 
Va. The regiment participated in all the movements and 
engagements of that command duriug June and July, and 
in Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign from August 
to December, being engaged in the battles of Opequon and 
Cedar Creek, and several minor affairs. In February, 
1865, it started on Sheridan's Virginia raid from Kerns- 
town, and in the action at Waynesboro March 2d, led in a 
charge on the enemy's works, capturing with the sabre 
1 ,500 prisoners, all the artillery and the flag of every regi- 
ment engaged. It was then detailed to guard prisoners 
back to Winchester, and after parti('i])ating in a few minor 
engagements in that locality was on duty at AA'inchester 
until mustered out in Juh^ The other five companies 



completed their orj^auizatioii iii July, 18G4, and were en- 
gaged on guard and patrol dut^^ at Washington, and in 
operations against Mosby's Guerillas until March, 1865, 
when they joined the regiment in the Shenandoah Valley. 
The regiment lost, during its term of service, 5 officers 
and 28 men killed in action or died of wounds. 

In our list of members are those serving in the First 
New York Dragoons, organized in September, 1862, as 
the One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry, and served as 
such at Suffolk, Va., and in Keye's Peninsular campaign. 
On July 28th, 1863, the regiment was transferred to the 
mounted seiwice under the designation of the First New 
York Dragoons. It made its first fight as such at Man- 
assas Plains on the night of October 17th. The regiment 
started on Grant's campaigu of May, 1861, with 400 car- 
bines, and in the Wilderness, (at Todd's Tavern May 7th), 
having dismounted, made a desperate fight, sustaining 
there the heaviest loss of any cavalry regiment in any one 
action during the war; its casualties amounted to 20 killed 
36 wounded and 35 missing. At Cold Harbor, June 3d, the 
wearied troopers were sleeping on the ground, bridle-rein 
in hand, when thej' were awakened and ordered into the 
bi'eastworks, which they gallantly defended while their 
band played gaily during the tight. In this action the regi- 
ment lost 8 killed and 26 wounded. At Trevilian Station, 
June 11th, the remnant of the dragoons were actively en- 
gaged, their casualties amounting to 16 killed, 61 wounded 
and 8 missing. After fighting under Sheridan in his 
famous Shenandoah campaign, and sharing in the glories 
of Appomattox, the regiment was mustered out June 
30th, 1865. The Dragoons ranked high in the estimation 
(•f its various brigade and division generals, as a regi- 
ment of superior <liscipline and efficiency. During all its 
mounted service the regiment was in the First Cavalry 
Division, Army of the Potomac. Its total loss killed or 



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fatally wounded in battle was 4 officers and 120 men, and 
exceeded by only five other regiments in tlie mounted 
service. 

One member of the Post served in the Eiglith New York 
Cavahw Hegiment, which participated in every principal 
battle of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, from 
Winchester May 24th, 1802, to Appomattox April 9th, 
1865, and was engaged in no less than forty different con- 
flicts with the enemy in which it had men killed. During 
the Antietam campaign it served in Pleasanton's Cavalry 
Division, having previously distinguished itself by its 
escape from Harper's Ferry, at the time of the surrender 
of that place in September, 1862, by passing through the 
besieging lines at night, and capturing from the enemy 
while on the way an ammunition train of 100 wagons and 
its escort of 000 men. It fought under Pleasanton in the 
famous cavalry battle at Beverly Ford, Va., June 9tli, 
1863, where it sustained the heaviest loss of any regiment 
(m that field, its casualties amounting to 12 killed, 31 
wounded, and 7 missing. Its Colonel was killed in a per- 
sonal encounter in this action. At Gettysburg the regi- 
ment fought in Gamble's Brigade (Buford's Division) — the 
brigade which opened that historic battle on the morning 
of July 1st, 1803. During Sheridan's raids and the Shen- 
andoah campaign, in 1804, it served in Wilson's (Third) 
Division. This division was commanded by Gen. Custer 
in the final campaign of 1865. During its term of service 
the regiment lost 14 officers and 91 men killed in battle 
oi" died of wounds. 

We have also one member of the Thirteenth Regiment, 
New York Cavalry, which was organized by the consolida- 
tion of several incomplete cavalry organizations June 
20th, 1803, companies A to F leaving the State for Wash- 
ington June 23d; companies G and H August 14th, and 
companies I to M in the winter of 1863-4. During its entire 



term of service it was attached to the Twenty-second Corps, 
organized for the defense of Washington, or to the cavalry 
brigade of that corps. The first six companies of the regi- 
ment served on patrol duty in rear of the Army of the 
Potomac during the Gettysburg campaign in June and 
July, 1803. (Companies G and II partici])ated in the New 
York riots July 15th.) It was engaged in the battle of 
Bristoe Station, Va., October 14th, and in numerous ac- 
tions in Northern Virginia from October, 1863, to March, 
1865. It was employed much of the time in operations 
against Mosby and the bands of guerillas that infested 
that section, and lost, while in the service, 31 men killed 
or mortally w^ounded. 

Included among our members is one who saw three 
years' service in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, wdiich took the 
field in March, 1862, and served until the close of the war 
with the Army of the Tennessee and the Cavalr^^ Corps 
operating with that army. It took part in the battles of 
vShiloh, Corinth and Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, 
march to the sea, and campaign of the Carolinas. The 
regiment participated in many cavalry raids and expedi- 
tions, meeting the enemy in numerous engagements and 
skirmishes, its encounters occurring in no less than seven 
different Southern States. It lost one ofticer and 26 men 
killed in action during its term of service. 

Our membership embraces those serving in the Seventh 
Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry, organized June 24th, 
1862, for three months' service. Its first thirty days' duty 
was in the defences of Washington, from whence it moved 
to Winchester, Va., where it remained until September 
3d. It participated in the defense of Harper's Ferry, and 
on the night of September 14th, the regiment escaped with 
other troops through the enemy's lines, and aided in the 
capture of a portion of Longstreet's wagon train. Our 



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member, with six others of the regiment, having- been de- 
tailed for the night as hospital guard on Bolivar Heights, 
was included in the surrender which took place on the 
15th, and was paroled. with other prisoners. September 
26th, the regiment was mustered out, on the expiration of 
its term of service. 

Among our members is one who served in the First 
Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, organized in 
Jul}^, 1861, as an infantry regiment, and proceeded at once 
to Washington, where it was placed on garrison duty in 
the forts about there. In January, 1862, it was changed 
lo hea\n>^ artillery and recruited to twelve companies of 
150 men each. The First Battalion was ordered on active 
field service at Maryland Heights and vicinity, but tlie 
regiment proper did not go to the front until May, 1864. 
It then served as an infantry command in Grant's Vir- 
ginia campaign, joining the Army of the Potomac May 
17th, having been assigned to Tyler's Division of Heavy 
Artillery, Second Corps. Two days later it met the enemy 
on the Fredericksburg Pike; it took 1,617 officers and men 
into that action, sustaining a loss of 50 killed, 312 
wounded, and 28 missing; a total of 390. Of the wounded, 
70 afterwards died of their injuries. In the assault on 
Petersburg— June 16-18— it lost 29 killed, 183 wounded 
(25 fatally), and 6 missing; total, 218. Four days later, in 
the affair of June 22d, it lost 9 killed, 46 wounded, and 185 
missing; the latter were mostly captured men, of whom 
over one-half died in confederate prisons. In the cam- 
paign of 1865, the regiment was in Pierce's (Second) Bri- 
gade, Mott's (Third) Division, Second Corps, with which 
command it participated in "the closing battles of the war. 
While in the servdce it sustained a loss of 9 officers and 232 
men killed in battle or died of wounds. 

Two of our members served in the noted Chicago Board 
i)f Trade (Stoke's Independent) Battery, organized August 



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1st, 18G2, and assis4ii('(l to duty iu tlie Army of the Ohio. 
It took part iu BuelPs pursuit of Bra<;j^- in Kentucky, and 
on October Sth was engaged in the action at Lawrence- 
burg. It tlien moved to Bowling Green, thence to Nasli- 
ville, Tenn., and participat<Ml in the advance on Murfrees- 
boro. At the battle of Stone's Kiver, December 31st, it 
was hotly engaged, and aided materially in repulsing the 
repeated assaults of the enemv. In March, 1863, the bat- 
tery Avas changed from mounted field to flying horse ar- 
tillery — the only battery of flying artillery in the Western 
Armies — and attached to the Second Cavalry Division, 
Army of the Cumberland. In June the advance on Chat- 
tanooga commenced, during Avhich the battery was en- 
gaged in the action at Shelb3wille on the 2Tth. It accom- 
panied Rosecrans across the Cumberland Mountains in his 
pursuit of Bragg, and on September 18-20th, fought at 
Chickamauga. The cavalry were then engaged in tln^ 
Ijursuit of Wheeler into Middle Tennessee, after which the 
battery was on dut^' in Nf>rthern Alabama and at Nash- 
ville until the following spring. On February 21th, 1861, 
it was re-fitted with 3-inch Parrott guns, and in May en- 
tered on the Atlanta campaign. With the cavalry com- 
mand it took part in much of the fighting in that cam- 
paign, and after the fall of Atlanta joined in the pursuit 
of Hood into Tennessee, and participated in the battle of 
Nashville December 15th and 16th. In March, 1865, it 
entered Alabama with Wilson's corps of troopers on the 
Vaid to Macon, Ga., and there fought in the closing battles 
of the war. During its term of service the battery lost 10 
men killed in action or fatally wounded. 

Included in our membership are those serving in the 
Eleventh Massachusetts Battery, first (U-ganized August 
25th, 18(52, for nine months' service, and employed on 
garrison duty in and about the defences of Washington 
until its muster out iu May, 1863. On January 2d, 1861, 



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the battery was re-organized under a three years' enlist- 
ment, and left for Washington February 5tli. It remained 
on duty in the defences of that city until April 9th, when 
it was assigned to Potter's (Second) Division, Ninth Corps, 
and participated in all of the battles of that command in 
the Rapidan campaign during May and June. In July it 
was attached to the Artillery Brigade, Ninth Corps, with 
which it served during the siege of Petersburg and assault 
and capture April 2d, 1865. In May the battery moved to 
Washington, where it took part in the grand review of the 
23d, and on June IGth, was mustered out of service, having 
lost 3 men killed in battle. 

In the Post are two survivors of the famous Loomis' 
(First) Michigan Battery, whicli was mustered into the 
United States service May 28th, 18G1, for three years, and 
in January, 1864, re-enlisted as veterans. It left the State 
May 31st, fully equipped, and on July 11th, participated 
in the action at Rich Mountain, W. Ya., ten days prior to 
first Bull Run. It remained in West Virginia until De- 
cember, and was engaged in the actions at Elkwater, Sep- 
tember 11th and 12th, and Greenbrier, October 3d. On 
December 16th, the battery was ordered to report to Gen. 
Buell in Kentucky. It made a forced march on Bowling 
Green February 14th, 1862, and with a few well-directed 
shots, at long range, soon disabled a locomotive and pre- 
vented the enemy from removing several trains loaded 
with stores and provisions. In Rosseau's Division, Mc- 
Cook's Corps, the battery took an important part in the 
fighting at Perry ville October 8th, and is said to have 
fired the first and last artilleiy shot of the battle. In this 
action it lost 18 men killed and wounded, and had 33 
horses killed or disabled. It was hotly engaged in tlie 
bloody battle of Stone's River, December 31st, where it 
lost heavily, but achieved a most noted distinction. Its 
losses were 22 men killed and wounded, with nearly 40 



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horses killed or disiibled. in that battle the corps — soou 
after designated as the Fifteenth — M^as commanded by 
Gen. Thomas. Ou the 24th of June, 1803, the battery 
moved with the advance of the army under Rosecrans, and 
on the 25th silenced the batteries of the enemy at Hoover's 
Gap. At Chickamauga September 19th — Gen. Baird com- 
manding the Division^the battery maintained its noble 
record, but suffered nearly annihilation. In this battle it 
lost 1 officer and 13 men killed or wounded, and 13 missing. 
Its Lieutenant commanding was killed at his post, fight- 
ing most heroically for the preserA'^ation of his guns. Hav- 
ing lost over 50 horses killed or disabled, the guns could 
not be moved, and all but one fell into the hands of the 
enemy. On the same evening one of the guns was re- 
covered, and in the second day's fighting two more were 
recaptured. Another gun was retaken at the battle of 
Missionary Ridge in November, and after the fall of At- 
lanta in September, 1864, another was received, making 
up the entire number captured at Chickamauga. When 
ordered home for muster out in Juh^, 1865, the battery was 
permitted to bring the guns to Michigan, where they now 
are in possession of the State. 

We have those who served in the Eighth Michigan Bat- 
tery, mustered into the United States service March 6th, 
1862, and first encountered the enemy at Thompson's 
Hill, Miss., May 1st, 1863, on the Vicksburg campaign, 
serving in Logan's (Third) Division, Seventeenth Corps. 
At Raymond, May 12th, it received much favorable com- 
ment on its rapid and effective fire. It participated in the 
battle of Champion's Hill, May 16th, and was actively en- 
gaged in the siege of Vicksburg, where its Captain com- 
manding received a wound which caused his death, and 7 
men were wounded. After tlie surrender, the battery re- 
mained at Vicksburg and vicinity until the spring of 1864, 



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liaviug, meantime, re-enlisted as veterans. In June it en- 
tered on the Atlanta campaign, the Division then being 
commanded by Gen. Leggett. The battery was engaged 
in the battles of Big Shanty June 4th, Kenesaw Mountain 
June 27th, Nickajack Creek July 5th, and siege of Atlanta 
July 22d to August 25th; also battles of Jonesboro August 
81st, and Lovejoy Station September 1st. In November it 
was ordered back to Nashvilh^ where it remained until 
February, 18G5, and was then placed on duty at Chat- 
tanooga until July, when it proceeded honn^ for muster 
out. During its term of service 2 officers and 3 enlisted 
ijien of the battery were killed in action or died of wounds. 

One of our members served in the Ninth Michigan Bat- 
tery, recruited in 1862, arriving in Washington December 
11th, and entering at once on service with the Army of the 
Potomac. It first met the enemy at Aldie, Va., April 27th, 
1863, but without loss. It participated in the summer cam- 
paign in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was hotly en- 
gaged in the battle of Gettysburg, occupying a critical 
point at the angle on Cemetery Ridge, in the third day's 
fight on tliat field, and losing 6 men killed and wounded. 
In October, the battery was ordered to the Department of 
the Cumberland, and arrived at Nashville, Teun., Novem- 
ber 12tli. In April, 1864, it was assigned to the Third Di- 
vision, Twentieth Corps, and participated, with that com- 
mand, in the events of the ensuing Georgia campaign. It 
was engaged in many of the battles of the succeeding four 
months, losing 8 men killed and wounded. Upon the fall 
of Atlanta it was the first Union Artillery to enter that 
city. In November the battery was ordered back to Chat- 
tanooga, where it remained until early in July, 1865, an<l 
then proceeded home for muster out. 

We have those who were members of the Tenth Michi- 
gan Battery, which was mustered into service February 
20th, 1863, and ordered to report at Washington. It was 



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i)U duty iu the defeuces of that city until October 28tli, 
when it was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. 
Arriving at Nashville November 12th, it remained there as 
a i)art of tlie reserve artillery until March 6th, 1864, when 
;t marched to Chattanooga. A ])()rtion of the battery was 
placed in one of the fortihcations of that city, and four 
detachments were detailed during the summer and fall 
of 1864 for service on gunboats and transports, and with 
other batteries. It remained iu the vicinity of Chat- 
tanooga until ordered home for muster out in July, 1865. 
During its term of service the battery was principally 
engaged on duty in fortificatious, and on gunboats and 
transports, and saw mucli hard service. It lost 3 men 
killed in action or died of wounds. 

Among our members are two who served in the Twelfth 
Michigan Battery, which completed its organization June 
30th, 1863, and was at once ordered to Indianapolis and 
thence to Cincinnati, to join in the pursuit of Morgan, 
then on his raid into Indiana and Ohio. Its services not 
being required it soon after proceeded to the field in Ken- 
tucky. It joined Burnside's advance into East Tennessee, 
rnd participated in the engagements at Blue Springs 
Oct(dier lOtli, Walker's Ford December 2d, and Tazewell 
January 21st, 1864. It then occupi<Ml the fortifications at 
Cumberland Gap, where it remained during the year, 
lakingpart in frequent scouts and expeditions into South- 
western Virginia during the winter of 1864, and the fol- 
lowing spring. In May, 1865, it marched to Knoxville, 
thence t(^ Strawberry Plains, Tenn., remaining there until 
July 7th, when it started for home to be mustered out. 
AVhile in the service the battery lost 3 men killed in action. 

Our membershii) includes those serving in the Thir- 
teenth Battery, Michigan Light Artillery, organized Janu- 
ary 20th, 1864, and reported for duty at Washington, D. 
C, February Ttli. It remained iu cam]) m*nr tluit city and 



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was ou duty in fortifications in the vicinity of Washington 
during the year 1864. On Juh' lltli and 12th, the battery 
materially aided in the defense of Fort Stevens, D. C, 
against the attack of Early's forces then threatening 
Washington. One of our members, in commnnd of the fort 
at that time, was personally complimented by the Major- 
General commanding the defenses, in his official report of 
the battle, ''as deserving great credit for the skill displa3'ed 
in directing the artillery of Fort Stevens." The battery 
remained on garrison duty until February 27th, 1865, 
^\dien it was mounted as cavalry, and detailed for service 
Avith the Thirteenth New York Cavalrj- in suppressing 
guerillas and otherwise maintaining peace in that section. 
Immediately after the assassination of President Lincoln 
it was on duty with the regiment referred to, in Mar^dand 
and Pennsylvania, following up the parties who had been 
engaged in the conspiracw against the President and his 
Cabinet, and assisted in arresting two of the conspirators. 
June 16th, the battery was dismounted and ordered home 
for muster out. 

We have those who served in the Ninth Ohio Independ- 
ent Battery, organized in October, 1861, for three years' 
seiwice, and re-enlisted and served throughout the war. 
It was engaged in the battle of Mill Springs, Ky., January 
19tli, 1862, in which it took an active part. In March it 
participated with the Seventh Division, Army of the Ohio, 
in the advance on, and occu^tation of, Cumberland Gap. 
The batter}' was engaged in the oijerations in that vicinity 
until September, when, it started on the retreat to the Ohio 
River. It then moved to Lexington, thence to Danville, 
Ky., where it remained until January 31st, 1863, when it 
was ordered to Nashville, Tenn. It was on duty there 
imtil March, when it moved to Franklin, Tenn., and took 
inirt in the pursuit of Van Dorn to Columbia. Returning 
to Franklin, it participated in the repulse of an attack on 



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that place April lOtb, aud was engaged iu tlie action at 
Triune, Tenn., June lllli. The battery then moved to 
Murfreesboro and was on duty there and at Tullahonia 
until the spring of 1864. In April it marched to Bridge- 
port, Ala., where it remained until mustered out in July, 
1865. 

Our roster embraces those serving in the First Michigan 
Engineers and Mechanics, that was the best known and 
one of the most efficient of the Michigan regiments in the 
west. It was composed almost entirely of mechanics and 
engineers. "In repairing the damaged railroads along the 
lines of communication, these men built bridges and 
trestles whose combined length could be measured b}' the 
mile, and erected block-houses by the score. The con- 
struction of some of these bridges, their size and height, 
and the marvelous quickness Avith which they were re- 
built, constituted some of the most wonderful feats of 
military" engineering. The regiment could tight also, as 
well as do other duty, and a detachment under its Colonel 
won further distinction by its brilliant and successful de- 
fense of the army trains which were attacked by Wheeler's 
Cavalrj', during the battle of Stone's River." The regi- 
ment was mustered into the United States service to date 
from October 29th, 18G1, and in 1864 a portion re-enlisted. 
These, with the recruits, preserved the organization 
throughout the war, the regiment not being disbanded 
until October 1st, 1865. 

Among our members are those who served in the First 
New York Engineers, which entered the service in Sep- 
tember, 1861; veteranized and served through the war. It 
formed a part of Gen. Thomas W. Sherman's expedition 
to Port Royal, S, C, in October, and participated in the 
capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal 
Harbor, in November, and caplnrc of Fori Pulaski, Ga., 



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April lltli and 12th, 1862. It tlieu joined tlie expedition 
to James Island, S. C, and took part in the nnsnccessful 
attack on Secessionyille June 16th. In July, 1863, it was 
engaged in the operations against Morris Island and 
Charleston, under Gillmore, and capture of Forts Wagner 
and Gregg September 7th. In April, 1864, the regiment 
proceeded with the Tenth Corps to Virginia, joining the 
Army of the James in the campaign against Richmond 
and Petersburg. During the siege it was employed in the 
construction of Fort Hell before Petersburg in September, 
and of the Dutch Gap Canal, October to December. It 
entered Eichmond, with the Engineer Brigade, April 3d, 
1865, and was employed rebuilding Mayo's bridge between 
Eichmond and Manchester in June. On June 30th, the 
regiment was mustered out, liaAing lost 2 officers and 25 
men killed or fatally wounded while in the service. 

We have two representatives of the First Regiment, 
Michigan Sharpshooters, six companies of ^which were 
mustered in July 7th, 1863, and were immediately ordered 
to Indiana, where they took an active part in checking the 
advance of Morgan's Eaid in that State. After being 
fully recruited, it served for some months as guard over 
(confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111. It 
joined the Army of the Potomac in March, 1861, at Ann- 
apolis, Md., and was assigned to Christ's (Second) Brigade, 
Willcox's (Third) Division, Ninth Corps. The regiment 
encountered hard fighting at Spottsylvania, its losses in 
the action of May 12th amounting to 34 killed, 117 
wounded and 3 missing. Another bloody contest occurred 
at the assault on Petersburg June 17th, where the regi- 
ment took a prominent and meritorious part. Its losses 
in that battle were 75 killed and wounded, besides 81 
missing, many of whom were killed or disabled ; the Major 
commanding was among the killed. The regiment was 



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theu trausferred to the Fi^^st Divisiou, in wliicli it after- 
wards remained. Upon the fall of Petersburg, the regi- 
ment — then in Ely's Brigade — w;is the first to enter the 
city, its flag appearing on the Court House April 3d, 1865, 
at 4:28 a. m. A few minutes later the cohu's of the Second 
Michigan Infantry, of the same brigade, were unfurled 
from the Custom House. During its term of service the 
regiment sustained a loss of officers and 131 men killed 
or mortally wounded in action. 

Our membership embraces those Avho saw three years 
and three months' service in the Eighth Connecticut In- 
fantry, organized in September, 1861, re-enlisted as vet- 
erans in December, 1863, and whose death roll includes 8 
officers and 120 men killed in battle or fatally wounded. 
Its first battle was at New Berne, N. C, March 14th, 1862, 
under Burnside, where it lost 2 killed and 4 wounded. 
After the siege and capture of Fort Macon, it moved wiih 
the Xintli Corps to Virginia, thence into Maryland. At 
Antietam, September 17th, it fought in Kodman's Division, 
and sustained the severest loss of any of its battles, its 
casualties being 34 killed, 139 wounded, and 21 missing. 
At Fredericksburg, December 13th, its loss was light — 1 
killed and 2 wounded. In February, 1863, the corps pro- 
ceeded to Newxjort News, and the following month the di- 
vision (now Getty's) was ordered to Suffolk, and incor- 
porated in the Seventh Corps. After participating in the 
siege of Suffolk, the regiment remained in the vicinity of 
Portsmouth until January-, 1864, when it went home on 
veteran furlough. Returning to the field in March, it was 
soon after ordered to Yorktown and attached to the Eigh- 
teenth Cor j)s, with which it moved in Buth^r's .Vrmy up the 
James River. At Walthall Junction, May 7th, it was en- 
gaged with a loss of 3 killed, 69 wounded, and 8 missing; 
Jind at Drewrv's Bluff on the l()tli, lost 7 killed, 31 



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wounded, and 26 missing. It took part in the assault on 
Cold Harbor June 1st, losing 8 killed and 30 wounded; and 
in the attack on the works at Petersburg June 15th, with 
a loss of 2 killed and 17 wounded. It lost 20 in killed and 
wounded in the trenches within the next thirty days, its 
location being on the extreme right of the line where the 
contending armies were nearest each other. On Septem- 
ber 26th, it was ordered to the north bank of the James, 
and on the 29th, participated in the successful assault on 
Fort Harrison at Chaffin's Fanu, losing 8 killed and 65 
wounded. In December, the Eighteenth Corps was dis- 
continued, and the regiment became a part of Deven's 
Division, Twenty-fourth Corps. It remained in front of 
Richmond on the north bank of the James, entering the 
city April 3d, under command of Weitzel. After the close 
of the war the regiment went to Lynchburg, Va., where it 
remained until its muster out, December 12th, 1865. 

It includes the names of those who served in the Twen- 
tieth Connecticut Infantry, organized in September, 1862, 
and assigned to the Twelfth Corps — ^the corps that never 
lost a color or a gun. After participating with Williams^ 
(First) Division, in the battles of Chancellorsville and 
Gettysburg, it accompanied the corps, in September, 1863, 
to Tennessee, as a reinforcement to Rosecrans, and Wil- 
liams' Division was stationed along the railroad from 
Murfreesboro to Bridgeport. In April, 1864, the designa- 
tion of the corps was changed to that of the Twentieth^ 
and the regiment became a part of Butterfield's (Third) 
Division. With this command it took part in tlie hard 
fighting of the Atlanta campaign, sustaining severe lossev< 
in the battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, and Peach 
Tree Creek. In November it started on the grand march 
through Georgia to the sea. Gen. Ward commanding- the 
division. After the siege and evacuation of Savannah, it 



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marched uortlnvanl tlirougli the Candiuas, aud was en- 
gaged in the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville. Dnr- 
ing its term of service the regiment lost 4 officers and 7G 
men killed or mortally wonnded in battle. 

.We have those serving in the Ninth Illinois Infantry, 
which lost 5 officers and 211 men killed in action or died of 
wounds, being the greatest loss of any regiment from that 
State. After serving a term of three months, the regi- 
ment enlisted for three years, leaving Cairo September 
oth, 1861. It proceeded to Padncah, Ky., where it was 
stationed until February, 1802, when it moved with 
Grant's Army to Fort Donelson, Tenn. It was then in 
McArthur's Brigade of C. F. Smith's Division; its loss in 
that battle, February 15th, was 36 killed, 165 wounded, 
and 9 missing; total, 210. At Shiloh, April Gtli and Tth, 
it sustained the heaviest loss of any regiment in that 
battle. It fought there in W. II. Wallace's Division, en- 
countering a severe tire, but holding its ground until 
ordered to retire, which it did in good order. The per- 
sistence with which it withstood the attack of the enemy 
occasioned its unusual loss, its casualties amounting to 
61 killed, 300 wounded, and 5 missing; a total of 366 out 
of 578 "present for duty." This was the greatest loss in 
killed and wounded sustained by any infantry regiment 
during the war. At the battle of Corinth, October 4th, it 
lost 11 killed, 82 Avounded, and 55 missing, out of 359 
present in action, as officially reported; many of the miss- 
ing were killed. The regiment was then in Oglesby's 
(Second) Brigade, Davies' (Second) Division, Army of the 
Tennessee. In March, 1863, the regiment was changed to 
mounted infantry, and served as such with the Sixteenth 
Cor])s during that year. In 1864 it was engaged on the 
Atlanta (•ami>aign until August 20tli, when it was mus- 
tered out of service. The recruits remaining in the field 
were consolidated into a battalion of seven companies. 



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and attached to the Seventeeuth Corps, with which it 
marclied on Hhei'man's famous campaign through Georgia 
and the Carolinas. 

In our membershij) are those who belonged to the 
Eleventh Regiment, Illinois Infantry, originally mustered 
into the United States service in April, 18G1, as a three 
months' regiment, and re-mustered at Bird's Point, Mo., 
for three years, on July 13th, 1861, one-third of the men 
remaining in the service. The regiment performed garri- 
son duty in Missouri until February, 1862, when it em- 
barked on the campaign against Forts Henry and Donc^l- 
son. In the storming of Fort Donelson, February 15th, it 
sustained the greatest loss of any regiment engaged there 
— losing 70 killed, 181 wounded, and 88 missing; a total 
of 339 out of about 500 present; many of the missing were 
killed or wounded. The regiment was then in W. H. 
ATallace's Brigade of McClernand's Division. At Shiloh, 
April 6th and 7th, it fought in Marsh's (Second) Brigade 
of the same division, taking 239 officers and 
men into action, and losing 17 killed, 69 wounded, 
and 17 missing; total, 103. During the Vicks- 
burg campaign it was in Ransom's (Second) Brig- 
ade, McArthur's Division, Seventeenth Corps. In 
the assault on Vicksburg, May 22d, 1863, it lost 3 killed 
— including the Colonel — 30 wounded, and 9 missing. At 
Liverpool Heights, Miss., March 5th, 9 killed, 24 wounded, 
and 12 missing. In July it marched with Gen. Slocum's 
expedition against Jackson, Miss., and on the 7th was 
engaged at Jackson and Clinton with a loss of 7 killed and 
several wounded. On July 29th, it moved to Morganzia, 
La., and in March, 1865, took part in the siege operations 
about Mobile, and in the fighting at Fort Blakely. On 
Jul}' 14th, 1865, the regiment was mustered out, having 
lost, during its term of service, 7 othcers and 179 men 
killed or mortally wounded in battle. 



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Two members of the Post eticli saw three years' service 
in the Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, which was organized 
in May, 18G1, and was one of the first A'olunteer regiments 
mustered into the United States service for tliree years. 
This regiment led in the assault at Chickasaw Bayou, 
Miss., December 29th, 18()2, aud Avas conqdimented by 
Gen, Sherman for gallantry in that action. By his general 
order the regiment afterwards bore on its flag the inscrip- 
tion, "actually first at Chickasaw Bayou." Its loss in this 
engagement was 27 killed, 107 wounded, and 39 missing; 
its Colonel was among the killed. Gen. Hooker also com- 
plimented the regiment for distinguished gallantry in the 
action at Ringgold Gap, November 27th, 1863, where it 
lost one-third of the number engaged. By a remarkable 
accident the flag of this regiment was the first Union 
colors to float over Libby Prison after the fall of Richmond. 
Its flag had been captured by the enemy, in battle, the 
previous year, and was hanging, at this time, in the oflflce 
of the commander of the jn-ison. When our troops occu- 
jjied Richmond on the morning of April 3d, 1865, a Massa- 
chusetts soldier, confined in Libby as a prisoner of war, 
seized the flag and hoisted it over the building. While in 
the service the regiment had officers and 61 men killed 
in battle or fatally wounded. 

On our rolls are the names of those who served in the 
Sixteenth Illinois Infantry, organized May 24th, 1861, and 
participated in several minor actions in Northwestern 
Missouri July to September. In March, 1862, it took part 
in the siege of New Madrid and capture of Island No. 10. 
It marched in Ajiril in the advance on and siege of Cor- 
inth, and was engaged in the affair at Farming-ton, Miss., 
May 9th. In September the regiment was attached to the 
Army of the Cumberland, and stationed at Nashville until 
July, 1863, when it was orrlerefl to Mui-freesboro, and in 



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August took part iu the forward movement ou Chat- 
tanooga. In October it was assigned to the Fourteenth 
Corps, and remained in the vicinity of Chattanooga until 
January, 1864. Having re-enlisted, the regiment returned 
to the army from veteran furlough in February, and was 
on duty at Eossville, Ga., until May, when it entered on 
the Atlanta campaign with the Fourteenth Coi^ds, which 
took part in the opening battle at Kesaca, and was promi- 
nently engaged in the final victory at Jonesboro. During 
the intervening four months it was actively engaged in the 
continuous marching and fighting which was so character- 
istic of that brilliant campaign. After a brief rest at 
Atlanta, and a short campaign in pursuit of Hood, the 
corps moved with Sherman's Army, November IStli, on its 
march to the sea. In February, 1865, it entered on the 
campaign of the Carolinas, participating in the hard- 
fought battle of Bentonville, N. C, March 19th, and was 
present at the surrender of Johnston and his anny near 
Ealeigh, April 26th. The regiment lost, while in the ser- 
vice, 3 officers and 54 men killed or mortally wounded in 
battle. 

We have those who saw service in the Twenty-fourth 
Illinois Infantry, mustered in July 8th, 1861, and assigned 
to the Department of Missouri. On September 15th, the 
regiment was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac, 
and moved from Pilot Knob, Mo., to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where the order was rescinded. It was then attached to 
the Army of the Ohio, and placed on duty in the vicinity 
of Louisville, Ky. In February, 1862, it took part with 
Buell's Army in the advance to Bowling Green, thence to 
Nashville and Murfreesboro, and to Huntsville, Ala. In 
September, upon Bragg's advance into Kentucky, the army 
fell back to Louisville, and on October 8th, the regiment 
was in the thickest of the fighting at Chaplin Hills, near 



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Perry ville, Ky. It was then serving in Rosseau's Di- 
vision, McCook's Corps, whicli bore the bi'imt of the battle. 
Out of twenty-three brigades present on that field, the 
three constituting this division sustained over 50 per cent 
of the entire loss in killed ajid wounded. In December 
the regiment marched in the advance on Nashville and 
Murfreesboro, and fonght in tlie battle of Stone's River 
December 30th and 31st. It remained at Mnrfreesboro 
until June, 1SG3, when it took part, with the Fourteenth 
Corps, in the Tullahoma campaign and action at Hoover's 
Gap June 24th. In August it entered on the Chattanooga 
campaign, and was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga 
September 18-20th, and Chattanooga November 25th. In 
February, 1804, it took part in the recouuoissance to 
Dalton, and in the actions at Rocky Face Ridge and Buz- 
zard's Roost, Ga. It started in May on the Atlanta cam- 
paign, participating in the battles of Resaca, Cassville, 
Dallas, and operations against Kenesaw Mountain. On 
June 29th, its term of service having expired, the regi- 
ment was ordered home for muster out. During its three 
years' ser^'ice its loss, killed in action or died of wounds, 
was 3 officers and 86 men. 

Included in our membership are those who served in 
the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, known as 
the "Second Board of Trade." It was organized in August, 
18()2, and served in the noted "Steedman's" (First) Bri- 
gade, Stanley's (Second) Division, Fourth Corps. Among 
the many engagements in which this regiment partici- 
l)ated, are the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Chicka- 
niauga, and Missionary Ridge. After this battle the corps 
marched to the relief of Knoxville, a campaign memor- 
able for the suffering, hunger and hardships endured by 
the men. In May, 18(34, it entered on the Atlanta cam- 
paign, and participated in much of tlie hard fighting of 
the succeeding four mouJlis. It suslaiiied lieavy losst^s in 



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the battles of Resaca, Dallas, and iu the iiusuccessful as- 
sault on Kenesaw Mountain. After the evacuation of 
Atlanta, it accompanied the corps on its march northward 
to confront Hood's forces, fighting in the bloody engage- 
ment at Franklin, November 30th. In this battle the 
brigade achieved a brilliant success, capturing ten flags, 
and rendered efficient aid at a critical period of the fight. 
The regiment fought its last battle at Nashville December 
15th and 16tli, 18G4. It lost, during its term of service, 
5 officers and 98 men killed in battle or fatally wounded, 
being 11 per cent of its total enrollment. 

One of our members served in the Eiglity-ninth Illinois 
Infantrj", or "Railroad Regiment," organized at Chicago 
in August, 18G2, by the railroad companies in the State of 
Illinois. At Stone's River, December 31st, its first battle, 
it fought in Wallich's (First) Brigade, Jolinson's (Second) 
Division, McCook's Corps, its loss being 10 killed, 40 
Vv'Ounded, and 94 captured or missing. At Liberty Gap, 
Tenn., June 2r)th, 1803, it lost 3 killed and 10 wounded, 
and at Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 14 killed, 
88 wounded, and 30 missing. In the latter engagement 
the Lieutenant-Colonel, who was in command, and 4 line 
officers were killed. Upon the reorganization of tlie Army 
of the Cumberland, in October, Willich's Brigade was 
placed in '^A\)od's (Third) Division, Fourth Corps, in which 
it fought at Missionary Ridge November 25th, the regi- 
ment losing in tliat battle 4 killed and 30 wounded. While 
on the Atlanta campaign in 1804, this brigade took the 
lead in the bloody assault at Pickett's Mills, May 27th, in 
which the regiment sustained a loss of 24 killed, 102 
wounded, and 28 missing; total, 154. Upon the evacua- 
tion of Atlanta, Sherman and the main army marched un- 
molested through Georgia, while the Fourth and IVenty- 
third Corps were engaged in a bloody campaign with 
Hood in Middle Tennessee. The regiment f)articipated iu 



this tiglitiiig, its loss at Nashville, December 15th and 
16th, being heavy in proportion to the small number en- 
gaged. Ou June 10th, 18G5, it was mustered out of ser- 
vice, having lost a total of 12 officers and 121 men killed 
in battle or died of wounds. 

We have those who were members of the Ninth Regi- 
ment of Indiana Infantry, that went out in 1861, in the 
three months' service, and participated in the engagements 
iit Phillippi, W. Va., June 3d, Laurel Hill July 8th, and 
Carrick's Ford July 11th. Upon its return home it reor- 
ganized under a three years' enlistment, and in September 
proceeded to West Virginia. It was engaged in the battles 
of Green Brier October 3d, and Camp Allegheny, Decem- 
ber 13th, meeting with some sharp fighting in the latter 
engagement, and losing 8 killed and 13 wounded. In 
February, 1862, it was ordered to join Buell's Army in 
Kentucky, where it was assigned to Hazen's Brigade of 
Nelson's Division, with which it marched to Shiloh. Its 
losses in that battle were 17 killed and 153 wounded. The 
year of 1862 was one of arduous campaigns and long mar- 
ches, ending, with the year, in Rosecrans' hard-fought bat- 
tle of Stone's River. The regiment was then in Palmer's 
(Second) Division of Crittenden's Corps, its casualties on 
that field amounting to 11 killed, 87 wounded and 11 miss- 
ing. At Chickamauga it lost 13 killed, 91 wounded and 22 
missing. It fought at Lookout Mountain and Missionary 
Ridge November 24th and 25th, in Grose's (Third) Brigade, 
Cruft's (First) Division, Fourth Corps. In December, 1863, 
nearly 300 of the regiment re-enlisted, thus preserving its 
organization during the war. In May, 1861, it entered on 
the Atlanta campaign with Gen. Stanley commanding 
the division. The regiment shared in much of the hard 
fighting of that campaign, beginning M'ith the battle of 
Rocky Face Ridge May 7th, and ending with Lovejoy's 
Station September 2d, and meeting witli severe losses at 



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Kenesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek. After tlie fall 
of Atlanta, it marclied northward with the Fourth Corps, 
and was engaged in the battles of Franklin and Nash- 
ville. In that campaign the division was commanded by 
Gen. Kimball, Gen. Stanley having been promoted to the 
command of the corps. After Thomas' victory over Hood 
at Nashville, December 15th, 1SG4, the regiment marched 
into East Tennessee; from there it moved to Texas, where 
it remained with the Army of Occupation until September, 
1865, when it was mustered out and returned home. 
Its loss in battle, killed and mortally wounded, was 11 
officers and 120 men. 

Our roster includes those serving in the Twentieth Iowa 
Infantry, organized August 25th, 1862, and assigned to 
duty in Totten's (Second) Division, Army of the Frontier, 
at Springfield, Mo. It participated in the advance to 
Fayetteville, Ark., in October, and in December marched 
to the relief of Gen. Blunt, being engaged on the 7th in 
the battle of Prairie Grove. After taking part in the ex- 
pedition to Van Buren the same month, it marched to 
Iluntsville, and on January 2d, 1SG3, was ordered to St. 
Louis, Mo., where it remained guarding the Arsenal until 
June. The regiment then proceeded to Vicksburg and took 
part in the siege of that place until the surrender. After 
sharing in the Yazoo City expedition in July, it moved to 
Port Hudson, and then to Carrollton, La. In September 
it joined the expedition to Morganzia, La., and participated 
in the action near that place on the 29th. In October it 
formed a part of the expedition to Rio Grande, Texas, and 
to Mustang Island, and was on duty at Brownsville and 
in extreme Southern Texas until August, 1864. The regi- 
ment then proceeded to New Orleans, then to Mobile Bay, 
where it participated in the operations against Fort 
Blakely, August 9th-23d. In September it moved to Mor- 
ganzia, La., thence to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., and remained 



on duty iu that vioiuity until Januuiy, 18()5. It was then 
ordered via New Orleans to Pensacola, Fla., and on April 
2d started on the march for Fort Blakely, where it took 
part in the assault of April Dtli, the last General engage- 
ment of the war. The loss of the regiment during its term 
of service, killed in action or fatally wonnded, was 1 
officer and 13 men. 

We have one who was a member of the Second Kansas 
Infantiw, organized at Lawrence, June 20th, 1861, and 
mustered into the United States service for three months. 
On June 2Gth it reported for duty at Clinton, Mo., and was 
attached to Lyon's Army of the Missouri, with which it 
marched in the advance on Springfield, June 29th to July. 
5th. The regiment participated in the actions at For- 
sythe, Mo., July 22d, Dug Springs August 2d, and the 
battle of Wilson's Creek August 10th. It then marched 
to Rolla, and from there to St. Louis, where it was ordered 
home for muster out. While en route for Kansas it took 
part in Hulbert's Northern Missouri campaign, and in 
some minor actions from September 2d to lltli. It was 
mustered out on October 31st, and lost, during its short 
term of service, 1 olhcer and 12 men killed or fatally 
wounded in battle. 

Our membership embraces those who saw three 3'ears' 
service in the Sixth Kentucky Infantry, mustered in De- 
cember 24tli, 18G1, and was immediately assigned to duty 
in the Department of the Cumberland. It was placed in 
Ilazen's Brigade of Nelson's Division, in which command 
it fought at Shiloh April 0th and Ttli, 1802, losing 10 killed 
and 93 wounded, out of 150 in action. In that battle the 
regiment made a gallant fight, capturing three jjieces of 
artillery, its Colonel cutting down one of the cannoniers 
with a bowie knife, just taken from a captured man. After 
sharing in the siege operations about Corinth, it partici- 
pated in the long, wearisome marches of Buell's Army in 



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the summer and fall of 1862, aud after marcUing- through 
Northern Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, was en- 
gaged at the battle of Stone's River December 31st. It 
was then in Palmer's Division, and its losses in that battle 
amounted to 13 killed, 90 wounded, and 10 missing, its 
Lieutenant-Colonel being among the killed. The regiment 
encountered its hardest fighting and severest loss at 
Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 1863, where, out 
of a small number present, it lost 12 killed, 95 wounded, 
nnd 11 missing. During the Atlanta campaign, it was in 
Hazen's (vSecond) Brigade, T. J. Wood's (Third) Division, 
Fourth Corps, and was prominently engaged in all the 
battles of that command. On November 2d, 1864, it was 
mustered out, its term of service having expired. Its roll 
of dead included 10 officers and 105 men killed in battle, 
being 12 j3er cent of its entire enrollment. 

Among our members is one who served in the Twenty- 
third Massachusetts Infantry, mustered in the United 
States service in September, 1861, and afterwards re-en- 
listing as veterans. It accompanied Burnside's expedition 
to North Carolina in January, 1862, and participated in 
the capture of Roanoke Island February 8th, and battle 
of New Berne March 14th. It was engaged in the actions 
at Kinston and Goldsboro in December, losing 12 killed 
and 55 wounded. The regiment remained in North Caro- 
lina — in the Eighteenth Corps — during the year 1863. In 
the spring of 1864 the corps was concentrated at York- 
town, Va., and took part in the campaign of the Army of 
the James against Richmond and Petersburg. The regi- 
ment served in the well-known "Star Brigade," partici- 
pating in all the fighting of that command, including the 
battles of Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. During its ' 
term of service it lost a total of 84 officers and men killed 
in action or mortally wounded. 



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One who saw service iu the Tweuty-foiirth Kegiment, 
Massachusetts Infantry, organized in November, 1861, re- 
enlisted and served through the war. This regiment also 
formed a part of the North Carolina expedition under 
Burnside, and was actively engaged in the capture of 
Roanoke Island February 8th, 18G2, and battle of New 
Berne March 14th, also some minor affairs in that vicinity. 
In September, 18C2, the regiment was attached to the 
Tenth Corps, and took part, in the summer of 1863, under 
Gillmore, in the capture of Morris Island and in various 
operations about Charleston Harbor. In April, 1864, it 
proceeded with the corps to Virginia, and was placed in 
Butler's Army of the James. In the campaign of this 
army against Richmond, the regiment took an active part 
in the fighting of Terry's Division, sustaining a severe loss 
at Drewry's Bluff May 16th. At Deep Bottom, August 
16th, it lost 10 killed, 99 wounded, and 12 missing. Its 
total loss while in the service, killed in battle and died of 
wounds, was 7 officers and 90 men. 

In our membership are survivors of both organizations 
of the First Regiment, Michigan Infantry, recruited in 
April, 1861, for the three months' service, and upon its 
return home was reorganized under a three years' enlist- 
ment. In February, 1864, a part of the regiment, 213 in 
number, re-enlisted; these with the recruits preserved the 
organization througliout the Avar. This regiment partici- 
pated in all the campaigns and battles of the Army of the 
Potomac from First Bull Run, where its dead were found 
nearest the enemy's works, to Appomattox. It was the 
first western regiment to reach Washington, arriving there 
May 16th, 1861, being the first troops to pass through 
Baltimore after the bloody assault on the Sixth Massa- 
chusetts. To this regiment also belongs the honor of 
being the first regiment armed and equipped for service, 
to respond to tlie President's call. At 2 a. m., May 24th, it 



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crossed the Potomac on the "Long Bridge," with three 
other regiments, the first Union troops to enter the State 
of Virginia. It entered Alexandria via the road simul- 
taneously with the regiment of Ellsworth's Zouaves that 
reached there by boat. At Bull Run, July 21st, it fought 
in Willcox's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, and was 
hotly engaed with a loss of 6 killed, 4 officers and 33 men 
wounded, and 5 officers and 65 men missing, 52 of whom 
Avere taken prisoners. Having re-enlisted and returned to 
the seat of war in September, tlie regiment was encamped 
at Annapolis Junction, Md., and employed guarding the 
railroad during the winter of 1861-2. In March, 1862, it 
moved to Fort Monroe and thence up the Peninsula with 
Morell's (First) Division, Fifth Corps. At Gaines' Mill, 
June 2Tth, the regiment did some hard fighting, losing 27 
killed, 81 w^ounded, and 43 missing. Still liarder fighting, 
with heavier losses, was encountered at Manassas (Grove- 
ton, August 30th), where its casualties amounted to 33 
killed, 114 wounded, and 31 missing; a total of 178 out of 
20 officers and 320 men engaged, or nearly 56 per cent. In 
this battle the Colonel, four Captains, and three Lieuten- 
ants were killed, and eight line officers wounded. At 
Fredericksburg the Brigade was commanded by Gen. 
Barnes, and the Division by Gen. Griflfiu. The regiment 
lost in that battle, December 13th, 1 officer and 7 men 
killed, and 7 officers and 33 men wounded. At Chancel- 
lorsville. May 5th, 1863, it lost 3 killed and 17 wounded. 
It entered the battle of Gettysburg with only 125 muskets, 
rnd fought near Little Round Top July 2d, losing 1 officer 
and 4 men killed, 6 officers and 25 men wounded, and 8 
men missing. In May, 1864, the regiment entered on 
Grant's campaign numbering only 176 guns. It was tlien 
in the Third Brigade (Bartlett's), with Gen Griffin still in 
command of the division. The loss of the regiment in the 
battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania was 2 officers 



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aud G meu killed, 4 officers aud 02 men woiindetl, and 12 
men missing. During the siege of Petersburg, and in the 
battles of Peeble's Farm, September 30th, and Hatcher's 
Run, Febrnar}' Gth, 1805, it lost 19 more killed or mortally 
wounded. While in the service the regiment sustained a 
loss in battle of 15 ofiflcers and 172 men killed, and 461 
wounded. 

We have five survivors of the Second Michigan Infantry, 
mustered into the United States service May 25th, 1861, 
being the first regiment from that State recruited for the 
term of three years. It was engaged in the action at 
Blackburn's Ford, Ya., July 18th, and three days later 
covered the retreat of the army from the Bull Run battle- 
field. In March, 1862, it moved with the army to the 
Peninsula, serving in Berry's Brigade, Kearney's Division, 
Third Corps. At Williamsburg, May 5th, the regiment 
sustained a loss of IT killed, 38 wounded, and 5 missing. 
The Colonel, in his official report of the battle, mentions 
the fact that one of his men, a new recruit never having 
had a musket until the day before, "was found dead beside 
a dead foe, each transfixed with the other's bayonet." In 
the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31st, the regiment lost 10 
killed and 47 wounded ; at Charles City Cross Roads June 
30th, and Malvern Hill July 1st, 2 killed and 19 wounded. 
In November the regiment was transferred to Poe's (First) 
Brigade, Burns' (First) Division, Ninth Corps, with which 
corps it served until the close of the war. At Fredericks- 
burg it was under artillery fire only, losing 1 killed and 1 
wounded. In February, 1863, the Ninth Corps moved to 
Newport News, Ya., and thence in March to Kentucky; it 
remained there until June, when it joined Grant's Army at 
Yicksburg. The regiment distinguished itself in a gallant 
affair on the skirmish line at Jackson, Miss., eluly 11th, in 
which it lost 9 killed, 40 wounded, and 10 missing. In 
the fight at Campbell's Station, Tenn., November 16th, it 



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lost 3 killed, 27 wounded, and 2 missing. During tlie siege 
of Knoxville, on November 24th, the regiment, with a 
gallantry unsurpassed, made a sortie from Fort Sanders, 
in which the Major, Adjutant, two line officers and the 
color-bearer were killed; 84 were killed or disabled, six 
sergeants losing a leg each. Its total loss, killed or mor- 
tally wounded, at Knoxville was 28, being nearl}^ 19 per 
cent of the 150 present. As an instance of the hardships 
endured by our troops at that time, the regimental his- 
torian gives the following as the result of an inspection of 
the regiment made subsequent to the raising of the siege, 
and a few days after that first of Jiinuary which is here 
spoken of as the "cold New Year's:" "One hundred 
and eighty-six present for duty; some of these were with- 
out blankets, overcoats and tents; 03 were shoeless; 99 
had no socks; 31 no coats; 63 were without pantaloons, 
and 70 were without underclothing. It was thus attired, 
with scarce food enough to sustain life, in the depth of 
that severe winter, you held the veterans of Longstreet at 
bay, until defeated and disheartened he withdrew, leaving 
only the dead behind. It was soon after this you showed 
the temper of your patriotism by re-enlisting for the war." 
In April, 1864, after the expiration of a veteran furlough, 
the regiment rejoined the corps then in Virginia, and on 
May 5th entered on Grant's campaign. During the suc- 
ceeding thirty days it lost 28 killed and over 100 wounded 
and missing, in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania, North Anna and Bethesda Church. In the assault 
on Petersburg, June 17th and 18th, it lost 21 killed, 170 
wounded, and 13 missing; total, 204. During the attack 
which followed the springing of the mine July 30th, it lost 
6 killed, 14 wounded, and 37 missing; two officers being 
among the killed. It also sustained heavy losses in the 
Petersburg trenches, and battles of Weldon Railroad 



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August 18tli-20tli, Teeble's Farm September 30tli, Boyd- 
ton Boad October 27tli, and Fort Stedman March 25th, 
18C5. The regiment was not only among the foremost in 
the final assault on Petersburg April 2d, but its flag was 
the first to wave over one of the public buildings in that 
city. Its total loss, killed and wounded during its term 
of service, was 806, of which 11 officers and 214 men were 
killed in battle or died of wounds, being over 13 per cent 
of the whole number borne upon its rolls. A female en- 
listed in this regiment and served with it for nearly two 
years in various campaigns and battles, as a soldier, often 
employed as a spy and going within the enemy's lines, 
without her sex being discovered. 

One who served in the Fourth Michigan Infantry, 
organized May Ifith, 1861, and took its departure from the 
State on the 25th of June. Proceeding to Virginia, it 
joined in the advance to First Bull Run, but w^as not en- 
gaged there. Early in the following spring it moved to 
the Peninsula with the main army, where it was assigned 
to the Second Brigade (Griffin's), First Division (Morell's), 
Fifth Corps, in which it remained, with occasional change 
of commanders, during its entire service. It encountered 
its first hard fighting at the battle of Gaines Mill, June 
27th, 1862, where it lost 15 killed, 41 wounded, and 32 
missing. At Malvern Hill, four days later, its casualties 
were 41 killed, 100 wounded, and 23 missing — its Colonel 
being among the killed. At Fredericksburg, December 
13tli, it lost 9 killed, 41 wounded, and 1 missing; and on 
May 3d, 1863, at Chancellorsville, 30 killed, wounded and 
missing. At Gettysburg the division was commanded by 
Gen. Barnes, and the brigade by Col. Sweitzer; the di- 
vision fought there in the desperate contest in the wheat- 
field, on the afternoon of July 2d, the regiment losing 25 
killed, 64 wounded, and 76 missing. It met with some 
close fighting in tliat battle; a Confederate officer who 



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seized the flag of the Fourth was shot by the Colonel of the 
regiment, who, in turn, was bayoneted b}^ a soldier and 
fell clinging to his colors; the soldier who ran him through 
went down, killed by a bullet from the revolver of the 
Major of the regiment. At the Wilderness and Spottsyl- 
vania in May, 1864, the casualties amounted to 10 killed 
— including the Colonel mortally wounded — 62 wounded, 
and 8 missing. Fourteen more were killed or died of 
wounds, from North Anna to Petersburg, including the 
assault of June 18th. On June 20tli the regiment was 
ordered home for muster out, its term of service having ex- 
pired. Its total loss, killed in battle or fatally wounded, 
was 12 officers and 177 men — over 14 per cent of the 1,325 
borne on its rolls. 

In the Post are three members serving in the Fifth Regi- 
ment, Michigan Infantrv^,' which was mustered in August 
28th, 1861, and in December, 1863, re-enlisted as veterans. 
This regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle, both 
officers and men, of any Michigan regiment, and the fourth 
largest loss of any infantry regiment in the entire army. 
Its killed in action numbered 16 officers and 274 men; 
wounded 755. Its first experience in battle was at Wil- 
liamsburg, Va., May 5th, 1862, where the three Michigan 
regiments in Beriy's Brigade won merited honors. Tho 
loss of the Fifth in that battle amounted to 29 killed and 
115 wounded. It was also hotly engaged at Fair Oaks, 
May 31st, wiiere it lost 31 killer!, 105 wounded, and 19 
missing, out of 330 taken into action. The regiment en- 
tered the Seven Days' battles with only 216 men, of whom 
59 were killed or wounded. At Glendale, June 30th, it 
lost 5 killed, 28 w^ounded, and 18 missing; the Lieutenant- 
Colonel commanding was mortally wounded. At Freder- 
icksburg, December 13th, the Lieutenant-Colonel and 
commanding officer was killed, the casualties amounting 
to 10 killed and 73 wounded. Its succeeding commanding 



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officer — the Lieutenant-Colonel — was killed in the next 
battle, at Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863; the total loss of 
the regiment being 7 killed, 43 wounded, and 31 missing. 
At Gettysburg it fought in De Trobriand's Brigade, Bir- 
ney's Division, Third Corps, which command took a promi- 
nent part in the battle of the second day. Although 
forced to fall back from its untenable position on the Em- 
mittsburg Road, it did not do so until it had exacted a fear- 
ful price from its assailants. The regiment lost in that 
battle, 19 killed, 80 wounded, and 1 missing. In August 
the regiment was ordered to Troy, N. Y., Avhere it was held 
a short time in reserve against a threatened outbreak, 
during the draft then in progress. The Third Corps having 
been discontinued, Birney's Division was transferred to 
the Second Corps, and tlie regiment marched with this 
ctunmand on the campaign of May, 18G1, numbering 365 
men as officially reported. Its casualties a few days later 
ai the Wilderness were 16 killed, 79 wounded, and 2 miss- 
ing; total, 97. Of the small number remaining, 58 fell 
the next week at Spottsylvania. In the assault on Peters- 
burg, June 18tli, it lost 15 killed, 52 wounded, and 19 
missing; and at the battle of Boydton Road, October 27tli, 
killed, 52 wounded, and 43 missing. It participated in 
the grand, final and successful assault on the fortifications 
of Petersburg Ax>ril 2d, 1865, and hot pursuit of Lee's 
retreating veterans, and was in the front in line of battle 
at Appouiattox at the surrender. 

Our membership includes those who saw service in the 
Seventh Michigan Infantry, which led the forlorn hope 
across the river at Fredericksburg December 11th, 1862. 
The engineers had tried for hours to lay a pontoon bridge 
under the fire of the sharpshooters who were safely posted 
in the biuldings which lined the opposite bank. A heav}' 
artillery- fire having failed to dislodge them, a call was 
made for volunteers to cross in boats and drive awav the 



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enemy's riflemen. In response, the men of this regiment 
seized some empty pontoons, pushed them into the water, 
and springing into tliem rowed rapidly across, driving the 
enemy from the ritiepits and houses. The regiment had 
previously encountered some hard fighting, having lost 45 
killed or died of wounds in the battle of Fair Oaks, May 
31st, 1802, and in the Seven Days' battles, June 25th-July 
1st, on the Peninsula. At Antietam, September 17th — in 
Sedgwick's Division — more than half its force engaged 
was killed or disabled, its loss amounting to 39 killed — 
including 1 officers — 178 Avouuded, and 1 missing; total, 
221. At Gettysburg it fought in Gibbon's Division, which 
took a prominent part in the defense of Cemetery Ridge, 
Juh' 2d, and in the repulse of Pickett's charge on the 3d. 
The regiment entered the battle with 11 officers and 151 
men, losing in the two days' fighting 21 killed and 44 
wounded. Its Lieutenant-Colonel commanding was killed 
in this battle. In the sprilig campaign of 1864 it sustained 
heavy losses, having 25 killed, 100 wounded, and 8 cap- 
tured or missing, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, 
May 5th to June 4th. It also lost 21 killed or mortally 
wounded in the Petersburg trenches, and in the battles of 
Deep Bottom, Weldon Railroad, Hatcher's Run, and in tlie 
final campaign. The regiment entered the service in 
August, 1801, re-enlisted in December, 1863, for another 
term, and was mustered out July 7th, 1865. It served its 
entire time in the Second Division, Second Corps, and sus- 
tained a loss of 11 officersi and 197 men killed in battle or 
fatally Avounded, and 521 other wounded. 

On our roster are the names of two who were members 
of the Eighth Michigan Infantry, the "Wandering Regi- 
ment," whose dead lie buried in seven different States, and 
whose loss, killed in action, is exceeded by only two other 
regiments from that State. The regiment was organized 
in August, 1861, arriving in Washington September 30tli. 



Five weeks later it went to Anuapolis, where it embarked 
witli Sherman's exiiedition for Hilton Head, S. C. On 
April IGth, 1862, while on a reconnoissance to Wilmington 
Island, Ga., about 200 of the regiment repulsed an attack 
of the enenn' over 800 strong, after a gallant fight, losing 
11 killed and 34 wounded. In June following the regi- 
ment signally distinguished itself in the assault on the 
earthworks on James Island, S. C. It gained the parapet 
of the works bv a daring and dashing charge, but was 
(»bliged to relinquish its foothold Avitli a loss of 48 killed, 
120 wounded, and 16 missing, out of 25 officers and 509 
enlisted men engaged. In July, 1862, it moved to Fort 
Monroe, where it joined the Ninth Corps, in which it fought 
at Manassas and in all the subsequent battles of that 
corps. Its casualties at Manassas, including Chantilly, 
were 10 killed, 56 wounded, and 12 missing. Six weeks 
later it was engaged in the battles of South Mountain and 
Antietam, sustaining severe losses. In March, 1863, the 
regiment accompanied the Ninth Corps in its occupation 
of Kentucky, the siege of Vicksburg, and the East Ten-* 
nessee campaign. In the action at Campbell's Station, 
Tenn., November 16th, it lost 2 killed and 9 wounded. 
During the siege of Knoxville, November ITth-December 
4th, it endured many hardships and privations, suffering 
especially from want of sufficient food and proper clothing. 
In January, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted as veteran vol- 
unteers, and upon the expiration of a thirty-day furlough 
rejoined the corps in Virginia, it having, meantime, re- 
turned to the Army of the Potomac. At the Wilderness 
it lost 11 killed, 80 wounded, and 14 missing, its Colonel 
being among the killed. It; lost 49 in killed, wounded and 
missing, in the assault May 12th, at Spotts3'lvania, and 
52 — including the Major killed — at Bethesda Church, near 
Cold Harbor, June 3d. In the assaults on Petersburg 



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June 17th and 18th, it lost 49 in killed, wounded and pris- 
oners. During the siege of Petersburg, at the Mine Ex- 
plosion, battles of Weldon Railroad, Pojjlar Spring 
Church, and general assault April 2d, 1865, 35 more were 
killed or mortally wounded; including the Major at the 
Weldon Railroad. During its term of service the regiment 
sustained a loss, killed and wounded in battle, of 783, of 
whom 11 officers and 212 men were killed or died of 
wounds. 

Among our members are four who served in the Ninth 
Michigan Infantry, mustered into the United States ser- 
vice October 15th, 1861, and was first employed in the 
construction of extensive field works near West Point, Ky. 
In March, 1862, it embarked for Nashville, and in May took 
part with an expedition in pursuit of Morgan, then raid- 
ing in Middle Tennessee. On July 13tli, six companies of 
the regiment made a brilliant defense of Murfreesboro, 
against an attack of a largely superior force under For- 
rest. After a contest lasting over eight hours, the regi- 
ment losing 11 killed and 89 wounded, they were forced to 
surrender from the lack of proper support. In November 
the regiment was stationed near Nashville, and entered 
on the campaign of Gen. Rosecrans. Before the battle of 
Stone's River, it was detailed as provost guard of the Army 
of the Cumberland, and was attached to Gen. Thomas' 
headquarters. It participated as such in the battles of 
Stone's River December 31st, 1862, and Chickamauga 
September 19th and 20th, 1863. In December the regi- 
ment re-enlisted, and upon its return to the field from 
veteran furlough, was again attached to the headquarters 
department of the Cumberland. On May 3d, 1861, it 
marched with the army on the Georgia campaign, and was 
present at the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Kene- 
saw, Chattahoochie, siege of Atlanta, and Jonesboro. It 
entered Atlanta September 2d, and was engaged on 



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provost duty until the city was evacuated by our forces in 
November. On the Gth, the regiment returned to Chat- 
tanooga, where it remained on guard and picket duty until 
March, 1805, when it was orchned to Nashville, and did 
duty guarding the military ])rison there until September 
15th, the date of its muster out. 

We have those who served in the Eleventh Michigan 
Infantry, whose formation was completed September 24th, 
1861, and which lost, during its three years' service, 5 
officers and 107 men killed in action. It was stationed 
during its first winter at Bardstown, Ivy., and in the 
spring of 18(32 was employed guarding the Louisville and 
Nashville Railroad. After participating in the chase of 
Morgan's raiders through Kentucky in July, the regiment 
Avas ordered to Nashville, Tenn., where it remained until 
the forward movement of the army under Rosecrans in 
December. In the battle of Stone's River on the 31st, it 
fought in Negley's (Second) Division, Thomas' (Four- 
teenth) Coii^s, and was heavily engaged, losing 32 killed, 
79 wounded, and 29 missing. The regiment was then de- 
tached as provost guard at Murfreesboro until June, 1863, 
when it joined in the advance on TuUahoma. In Septem- 
ber it marched with the army over the mountains into 
Georgia, and fought in the battle of Chickamauga on the 
19th and 20th, losing 6 killed, 46 wounded, and 23 missing. 
At the battle of Missionary Ridge, or Chattanooga, No- 
vember 25th, it took part in the main and victorious 
charge, and was one of the first regiments to reach the 
enemy's works on the extreme crest, losing 39 in killed and 
v.'ounded. The regiment remained in the vicinity of Chat- 
tanooga until May, 1864, when it entered on the Atlanta 
cami^aign, and was engaged in the fighting at Resaca 
May 14th, New Hope Church May 27th, Peach Tree Ci-eek 
Julv 20th, and siege of Atlanta July 22d to August 27th, 



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with Ji loss of G7 in Idlled aud wouuded. Its term of en- 
listment having expired, it was ordered back to Chat- 
tanooga, from whence it proceeded home for muster out. 

Our roster of members includes two serving in the 
Thirteenth Michigan Infantry, mustered into the United 
States sei'vice in January, 1862, and in January, 1864, be- 
came a veteran regiment. Arriving at Nashville, Tenn., in 
February, it formed part of Wood's Division of Buell's 
Army, which made a forced march to reinforce Grant at 
Shiloh, but did not reach the battlefield until the close of 
the second day's fight, April 7th. In June it accompanied 
Buell's Army from Corinth to Stevenson, Ala., where it 
remained until August 31st, when it joined in the cele- 
brated race with Bragg for Louisville, Ky. In November 
it marched with the army under Rosecrans on Murfrees- 
boro, and at the battle of Stone's River, December 31st, 
the regiment made a most gallant charge and recovered 
two pieces of artillery which had been captured by the 
enemy. It took into this action 225 oflftcers and men, and 
the fierceness of the combat is shown in the killed and 
wounded, which was tw^o-fifths of its entire strength. One 
officer and 31 men were killed— being over 14 per cent of 
the number engaged — and GO wouuded. In June, 1863, it 
accompanied Rosecrans' Army — in the Twentieth Corps — 
in the advance on Tullahoma., and x^nrsuit of Bragg across 
the Cumberland Mountains. At Chickamauga, September 
19th, the regiment entered the fight with 217 officers and 
men, losing 3 officers and 23 men killed, 56 wounded, and 
25 missing; the killed amounting to nearly 12 per cent, and 
the total casualties 50 per cent of the number engaged. 
In November the regiment was attached to the Engineer 
Brigade, and assigned to duty at Chattanooga aud vicin- 
ity. After re-enlisting and returning to the field from 
veteran furlough in April, 1864, it was stationed on Look- 
out Mountain engaged in the construction of military 



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liospitals imtil late in September, when it was assigned 
to the Second Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Corps. 
With this command it participated in the "March to the 
Sea," and cami)aign of the Carolinas. At the battle of 
Bentonville, N. C, March 19th, 1865, it sustained the 
greatest casualties of any regiment engaged there, losing 
17 killed, 86 Avouuded, and 7 missing. Its Colonel was 
among the killed on that held. During its term of service 
the regiment lost 4 officers and 68 men killed in action or 
died of wounds. 

Included in our membership are those who served in the 
Fourteenth Michigan Infantiy, which joined the army at 
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., in April, 1862. It took part 
with Pope's command in the advance on Corinth, and siege 
of that place, and was engaged in the action at Farming- 
ton, Miss., May 9th. After the evacuation of Corinth it 
moved with the army as far south as Tuscumbia, Ala., and 
on September 1st started on the famous race of Buell and 
Bragg for Louisville, but at Nashville the regiment was 
halted, and was on duty there for the remainder of the 
year. On the night of Januarj^ 2d, 1863, it made a forced 
march of 30 miles to Stone's River, arriving on that field 
after the battle had ended. It remained iu the vicinity of 
Nashville until September, when the regiment was or- 
dered to be mounted, and was employed in hunting 
guerillas. In March, 1861, the regiment re-enlisted, and 
upon its return from veteran furlough failed in being 
remounted. It served with the Fourteenth Corps in the 
Atlanta campaign, and participated in much of the fight- 
ing from May to September. In the action at Chatta- 
hoochie River, July 5th and 6th, it lost 9 killed and 35 
wounded. In front of Atlanta, August 7th, it aided in 
taking two lines of the enemy's works, suffering a loss of 
8 killed and 27 wounded. At Jonesboro, September 1st, 
tbe reoiment carried a line of the enemv's entrenchments. 



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capturing four pieces of artillery, a set of regimental 
colors, and 300 i^risoners. The regiment accompanied 
Sherman's Army on its grand march to Savannah, and 
was an active participant in the campaign of the Caro 
linas, sustaining a loss at Averasboro, March ICth, of 22 
killed and wounded, and at Bentonville, March 19th and 
20th, lost 7 killed, 47 wounded, and 5 missing. In this en- 
gagement it captured two stands of colors and a large 
number of prisoners, including one general of&cer. The 
regiment lost, while in the service, 1 officer and 58 meu 
killed or fatally wounded in battle. 

We have those who were members of the Fifteentb 
Michigan Infantry, mustered into the United States ser- 
vice March 20th, 1862, that fought with conspicuous gal- 
Inntrv at the battle of Shiloh Ai)ril 6th, and having joined 
Buell's Army only the day before the battle. It lost in thai 
engagement 2 officers and 31 men killed, 64 wounded, and 
7 missing. In the attack on Corinth, October 3d, it formed 
the outposts of the Union Ann 3', and in the engagement 
that followed sustained a loss of 13 killed, 32 wounded, 
and 5 missing. It participated Vvdth the Ninth Corps in 
the Vicksburg campaign, after which it was attached to 
the Fifteenth Corps, which was ordered to reinforce the 
Army of the Cumberland. During the winter of 1863-4, 
the regiment was stationed in the vicinity of Chattanooga, 
and in March, 1864, became a veteran organization. It 
was engaged in much of the fighting of the Atlanta cam- 
paign, capturing in the battle of Atlanta, July 22d, two 
battle flags and nearly 200 prisoners. In the action at 
Ezra Chapel, July 28th, the regiment sustained a loss of 
33 killed and wounded. After the fall of Atlanta and a 
short campaign in Northern Georgia and Alabama in 
pursuit of Hood, it started with the Fifteenth Corps on the 
march of Sherman's Army through Ge'orgia to the sea. 
Savannah was evacuated December 21st, after a brief 



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siege, aud in Februaij, 1805, it moved with the araiy on 
the grand victorious niarcli throiigli the Carolinas. John- 
ston's army having- surrendered April 2Gth, the corps con- 
tinued its nortlnvard march via Richmond to Wasliington. 
After participating in the grand review May 24th, the 
cori)s proceeded to Louisville, Ky., tlience to Little Rock, 
Ark., where the regiment served with the Army of Occu- 
l>ation until ordered home August 21st for muster out. 
During its term of service the regiment lost 3 officers and 
00 men killed in action or mortally wounded. 

Among the members of the Post are four survivors of 
the Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, organized originally as 
"Stockton's Independent Regiment," which left the State 
<»n September IGth, 1801, with ten companies. IVo com- 
Ijanies of sharpshooters were afterwards attached to the 
regiment, one joining in 1802 and the other in 1804. The 
regiment went into winter quarters at Hall's Ilill, Ya., 
aud in March, 1802, moved to the Peninsula, where it was 
assigned to the Third Brigade (Buttertield's), First Di- 
vision (Morell's), Fiftli Corps." The Sixteenth suffered the 
heaviest loss of its entire service at the battle of Gaines' 
Mill, June 27th, 1802, where its casualties amounted to 3 
officers and 40 men killed, officers and 110 men wounded, 
and 2 officers and 53 men missing; many of the latter were 
l;ill(Hl or M'oundetl. Four days later, at Malvern Hill, it 
lost 2 killed, 37 wounded, and 3 missing. It was hotly en- 
gaged at Manassas August 30th, losing 3 officers and 13 
men killed, 4 officers and 00 men wounded, and 10 missing, 
out of 290 engaged. At Fredericksburg, December 13th, 
it lost 3 killed, 30 wounded, and 8 missing, and at Chan 
cellorsville. May 2d-5th, 1803, lost 1 killed and wounded. 
In the action at Middleburg June 21st, the regiment cap- 
tured a ])iece of artillery aud a number of prisoners, sus- 
taining a loss of 1 officer killed and 8 men wounded. At 
Gettysburg it took a prominent ])art in the historic contest 



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of Vincent's Brigade for the possession of Little Round 
Top in the second day's fight, helping materiall}^ to save 
the fortunes of the day. It lost in that battle 4 oflflcers 
and 21 men killed, 34 wounded, and 2 missing. In De- 
cember the regiment re-enlisted, and after the expiration 
of a veteran furlough rejoined its old brigade near Cul- 
peper Court House, Va. On May 4th, 1864, it crossed 
the Rapidan on the Wilderness campaign, losing during 
the month 31 killed or mortally wounded; its Major com- 
manding was killed at the Totopotomy, May 30tli. Dur- 
ing the siege of Petersburg and in the fighting which 
followed the extension of the army lines on the left, it 
sustained severe losses. In the assault at Peeble's Farm, 
September 30th, it lost 10 killed and 42 wounded. In this 
action the Colonel was killed on the parapet of a redoubt, 
which he was the first to scale. The regiment was also 
engaged in the battle of Five Forks, April 1st, and in much 
of the fighting that occurred while pursuing Lee's Army 
until the surrender. The total loss of the regiment, killed 
and wounded in battle, was 870. Of these, 12 officers and 
235 men were killed or died of wounds; the greatest loss of 
any regiment but one from Michigan. It served its entire 
term in the same brigade, division, army corps and army. 
One of the regiments of this brigade sustained a loss, 
killed in action, that was exceeded by only one other regi- 
ment in the entire Union Army. 

Two of our members served in the Seventeenth Michigan 
Infantry, the famous "Stonewall Regiment," that left 
Detroit August 27th, 1862, and upon arrival at Washing- 
ton was ordered immediately into Maryland. It there 
joined the Army of the Potomac, then on its way to meet 
Lee, and was assigned to the First Brigade (Christ's), First 
Division (Willcox's), Ninth Corps. Only a little more than 
two weeks after leaving the State it was engaged in the 



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battle of South Mimntain, where it altaiiied much ceU^b- 
rity bv gallautly charging- over the stone walls with shouts 
of triumph, its effective services being acknowledged by 
the division General and also by the (leneral commanding 
the army. Its loss in that action was 26 killed and 100 
wounded; no iiii.ssiii;/. It fought again, three days later, 
at Antietam, losing there 18 killed and 89 wounded. It 
crossed the Rappahannock with the army at Fredericks- 
burg in December, but did not participate in the battle 
that ensued. In March, 1803, the Ninth Corps was 
ordered to Kentucky, thence to Alcksburg, and then to 
East Tennessee. The Seventeenth was engaged in a sharp 
fight at Campbell's Station, Tenn., November ICth, in 
which it lost 7 killed, 51 wounded, and 15 missing. It was 
in Knoxville during the besiegement by Longstreet, and 
made a brilliant sortie from Fort Sanders on the night of 
November 20th, driving back the enemy's advanced posts 
and burning the buildings in which tliey had gained cover. 
In the fighting which occurred there the Lieutenant- 
Colonel commanding the regiment was killed. The Knox- 
ville campaign was unequalled during the war for the 
privations and hardshii)s undergone by the troops. Re- 
turning to Virginia with the corps in April, 1861, the regi- 
ment participated in the bloody fighting of Grant's cam- 
paigns. At the battle of the Wilderness it lost 5 killed and 
37 wounded; and on May 12th, in a charge on the enemy's 
works at Spottsylvania, it lost 23 killed, 73 wounded, and 
93 captured or missing, out of 226 engaged. The regiment 
was soon after detailed to serve as division engineers and 
provost guard, on which duty it continued the most of its 
remaining term of service. During the siege of Peters- 
burg it lost 2 killed and 8 wounded. In the attack of the 
enemy on Fort Stedman, March 25tli, 1865, the regiment 
was advanced as skirmishers, capturing 65 i>i'isouers, sus- 
taining a loss of 1 killed and 2 wounded. On April 3(1, it 



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moved with its divisiou iuto Petersburg, and soou after 
proceeded via City Point to Washington, in the vicinity 
of which it remained until ordered liome, and on June 7th 
was paid off at Detroit and discharged. Its loss, killed 
in battle or died of wounds, was 7 officers and 128 men. 

Our membership includes those serving in the Twentieth 
Regiment, Michigan Infantry, which left the State Sep- 
tember 1st, 1862, and after a short stay at Alexandria, Va., 
joined the Army of the Potomac at Sharpsburg, Md., a few 
days after the battle of Antietam. It was placed in the 
Mnth Corps, with which it marched to Fredericksburg, 
where it was under fire with a sliglit loss in wounded men. 
It was then in the First Brigade (Poe's), First Division 
(Burns'). In March, 1863, the regiment acconii)anied the 
Ninth Corps to Kentucky, and on May lOtli had a brisk 
fight at Horse Shoe Bend, on the Cumberland River, where 
it was attacked by Gen, John Morgan, losing 5 killed, 19 
w^ounded, and 5 missing. Its gallant defence, after being 
summoned to surrender by a vastly suj^erior force, made 
this fight a notable one among the minor actions of the 
war. It participated in the Vicksburg campaign, and then 
in the fighting in East Tennessee. In the affair at Camp- 
bell's Station, November 16th, it lost 33 killed and 
wounded, its Lieutenant-Colonel and commanding officer 
being among the killed. The regiment shared in the hard- 
ships and privations of the Knoxville campaign, and dur- 
ing the siege occupied a position on the most exposed part 
of the line. On November 29th. it assisted in repelling the 
desi)erate assault on Fort Sanders, losing 2 killed and 8 
wounded. In the spring of 1861 the regiment returned to 
Aarginia, where it took part in all of the battles of the 
Ninth Corps during 1861-5. It entered the Wilderness 
campaign in the Second Brigade, Third Division, and at 
Si)ottsylvania, May 12th, it was engaged in the hardest 
fighting of its whole experience. It lost on that day 17 



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killed, 108 woiiuded, aud 19 missing; total, 144. On June 
ISth, it participated in the assault of the Ninth Corps at 
Petersburg, losing 14 killed and 55 wounded — over one- 
half the number engaged. Its Major in command fell 
mortally wounded. After this battle the regiment num- 
bered only 106 muskets. At the Mine Explosion, July 
30th, it took part with Willcox's Division in the charge at 
the Crater, losing 52 out of 110 men who advanced to the 
assault, 8 being killed. It also lost 3 officers and 15 men 
killed in the Petersburg trenches, in the battle of Peeble's 
Farm September 30th, and in the Confederate sortie at 
Fort Stedman March 25th, 1865. During its term of ser- 
vice it sustained a loss of 13 officers and 111 men, killed 
in action or fatalh- wounded. 

We have one who was a member of the Twenty-second 
Michigan Infantry, so distinguished at the battle of Chick- 
amauga September 20th, 1863, for one of the most dashing 
and desperate bayonet charges of the war. It fought there 
in Whittaker's (1st) Brigade, Steedman's (1st) Division, of 
the Reserve Corps, commanded by General Gordon 
Granger, the man who marched his troops to the battle- 
field with no other orders or direction than "the sound of 
the enemy's cannon.'' The casualties of the regiment 
were 58 killed, 261 ^^ounded, aud 70 missing, out of 584 
engaged; the greatest loss of any regiment on that field. 
Many of the missing were doubtless killed or wounded as 
the enemy held possession of the field. After this battle 
the regiment was attached to the engineer brigade, and 
until the close of the war was principally^ employed lay- 
ing pontoon bridges, repairing railroads, and performing 
l)rovost and guard duty. It was mustered in August 
29th, 1862, and disbanded at Detroit July 11th, 1865. 
While in the service it lost 3 officers and 86 men killed 
in battle or died of wounds. One hundred and twenty- 
two members of the I'egiment died in Confederate prisons. 



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Also members of the Twenty-third Regiment, Michigan 
Infantry, organized in September, 1862, whose first field 
service was in Kentucky under llosecrans, being stationed 
for some months at Bowling Green and vicinity. In July, 
1863, it took part in the pursuit of Morgan, then on his 
famous raid through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, after 
which it was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Di- 
vision, Twenty-third Corps, and served with that command 
tliroughout the war. In August the regiment partici- 
pated in the advance into East Tennessee, and was en- 
gaged with Long-street's forces at Campbell's Station 
November 16th, with a loss of 8 killed, 23 wounded, and 
8 missing. It aided in the defense of Knoxville until the 
siege was raised, and with the other troops on that cam- 
paign suffered great privations and hardships. After 
passing the winter in East Tennessee, it entered on the 
Atlanta campaign in May, 1861, and participated in much 
of the fighting that followed. At Resaca, May lltli, the 
regiment was in the assaulting column, and lost in a few 
minutes 62 men killed or wounded. After the fall of 
Atlanta, September 2nd, it marched with the corps in pur- 
suit of Hood, who was then moving northward. It took 
an active part in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 
30th, and at Nashville, December 15th, made a brilliant 
charge, capturing more prisoners than there were men 
in the line of the regiment. In January, 1865, it moved 
with the Twenty-third Corps from Nashville, via Wash- 
ington, to North Carolina, landing at Fort Fisher at the 
mouth of the Cape Fear River February 9th. Moving up 
the river, the corps fought at Fort Anderson February 
ISth, and at Wilmington on tlie 21st, ca^jturing the latter 
place. Proceeding up the Coast, the regiment reachetl 
Kinston just at the close of the action at that poinr. On 
March 21st, Goldsboro was occupied and a junction nade 



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with Slu'iiiiairs Army on the 23rd. April lltb, the regi- 
iin'iit moved with the army on Raleij"!!, where it . emaiued 
until the surrender of Johnston's Army on the 2(>tli. 
During- its term of service 3 officers and 70 men of tiie 
regiment were killed or fatally w<iunded in battle. 

We have IG survivors, and all oi-igiual members of Hie 
Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, mustered into the 
T'^nited States service August 15, 1802, that was recruited 
in twenty days, and left Detroit for the seat of war, fully 
armed and equipped, within forty days from the date of 
its first enlistment. It might have been called a regiment 
of relatives, 135 of its members having brothers in it, and 
there were several cases of three brothers of one family 
in its ranks. There were also several cases of father and 
son, and one company had a father and two sons. It had 
one member barely thirteen years of age, who served as a 
di-umnier throughout the war, and is now a regular at- 
tendant at our Post meetings. In its tirst battle — Fred- 
ericksburg, December 13th, 1862 — the regiment fought in 
Meredith's (4th) Brigade, Doubleday's (1st) Division, 
Reynold's (1st) Corps, losing 7 killed, 18 wounded, and 
taken prisoners. At Chancellorsville — General Wads- 
worth commanding the Division— it took part in the 
movement on the extreme left, and attained a most daring 
achievement in crossing the Rappahannock River some 
three miles below Fredericksburg, at Fitzhugh Crossing. 
At daybreak on tlie morning of A])ril 29th, 18(>3, the 
])ontoon train Avas run down to the river bank, but the first 
attempt to unload the wagons drew the fire of the enemy 
from the ()])posite bank and forced the engineers and train 
guard to fall back. After repeated attempts to ixf^t the 
boats in tlu^ water and lay the bridge, all of which were 
unsuccessful, a storming ])arty was organiz(^d to cross the 
river and drive the enemy out of their intnMiched position. 



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The force consisted of the 24th Michigan aucl three com- 
panies of another regiment in the same brigade. The 
crossing was made in open boats, under a terrific fire, the 
enemy completely routed and over 100 prisoners captured. 
The attempt seemed more of a forlorn hope than the 
famous crossing of the 7tli Michigan at Fredericksburg 
the previous December; the rifie-pits on the heights 
opposite being manned with more troops, the river at this 
point being wider, the bank to be charged up was steeper 
with a thick undergrowtli, and the enemy had formed an 
abatis by felling trees with the tops down the hill. The 
loss was also greater.* 

At Gettysburg the regiment fought in the battle of 
July 1st, sustaining its entire loss on that day. The only 
infantry troops engaged in the first day's fighting were 
those of the First and Eleventh Corjjs, and the First Corps 
Is here credited with having done some of the best fighting 
of the war. Although driven from the field by a superior 
force, it succeeded in capturing, at different times and at 
different points on the field, the greater portions of three 
brigades of the enemy, taking them in open field fighting, 
where there were none of the usual accessories of breast- 
works or intrenchments. It "fought that day with no 
other protection than the flannel blouses that covered 
their stout hearts." Gen. Reynolds having been killed 
at the very opening- of the battle. Gen. Doubleday suc- 
ceeded to the command, and liandled the corps in a re- 
markably able manner. The brigade in which the 
Twenty-fourth was serving was at that time, numerically, 
the first brigade in the army, and was among the first 
infantry troops engaged. To this regiment belongs the 
melancholy honor of having suffered the gTeatest number 
of casualties of any of the 400 Union regiments on that 

♦History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan and Iron Brigade. 



immortal field. It entered the battle with 28 officers and 
468 men. It lost 8 officers and 82 men killed, 14 officers 
and 218 men wounded, 3 officers and 66 men prisoners, and 
6 men missing; total, 397 — or over 80 per cent of the nmn- 
ber engaged. The killed amonuted to over 18 per cent — 
an unusually high percentage. In addition to the above, 
9 men belonging to the regiment were wounded while 
serving with a battery attached to the brigade, and into 
which they had been detailed for duty some months prev- 
ious. Of the 232 wounded 17 fell into the hands of the 
enemy as prisoners of war, and were paroled on the field 
or taken South. In that battle its flag was borne by no 
less than ten different persons, 5 of whom were killed and 
2 wounded. On the Mine Run campaign, November 26th- 
30th, the corps was commanded by Gen. Newton, who 
had been appointed to the position and assumed command 
during the second day's battle at Gettysburg. In March, 
1864, the First Cor|)s was discontinued, Wadsworth's 
Division becoming the Fourth Division of the Fifth 
Corps, commanded by Gen. Warren. The regiment 
crossed the Rapidan Ma}' 4th with 17 officers and 
303 men, Gen. Cutler in command of the brigade. At 
the battle of the Wilderness, May 5th, the regiment cap- 
tured the colors of the 48th Virginia, losing on that and 
the succeeding day 19 killed, 49 wounded, and 39 taken 
jn'isoners; total, 107, out of 320 taken into action. Its 
Colonel was severely wounded in the first day's fight. 
Gen. Wadsworth having been mortally wounded, the com- 
mand of the division devolved upon Gen. Cutler, and Col. 
Robinson assumed command of the brigade. The next 
Aveek, at Spottsylvania, the regiment lost 24 killed and 41 
wounded. Of the small number left 9 were killed and 21 
wounded at North Anna May 23rd-26th, and at Cold Har- 
bor June 2nd-4th. It became so reduced by losses that 
it mustered onlv 120 men for the Petersburg assault of 



June 18th, where it lost 11 killed and 38 wounded. In 
this battle and all subsequent actions the brigade was 
commanded bj Gen. E. S. Bragg. During the Siege of 
Petersburg, battles of Weldon Railroad, xlugust 18th-21st, 
{lud Dabney's Mill, February 6th and 7th, 1865, the regi- 
ment had 12 killed, 23 wounded, and 22 taken prisoners. 
At the Weldon Railroad it captured the colors of the 12th 
Mississippi. On February 11th it was withdrawn from 
the field and ordered to Springfield, 111., for duty at the 
State rendezvous, and to recruit. On May 4th, 1865, it 
formed the military escort at the funeral of President 
Lincoln. It was mustered out at Detroit June 30th, hav- 
ing sustained a loss, during its term of service, of 12 
officers and 177 men killed in battle or mortally wounded. 
Its entire field service was in the famous "Iron Brigade," 
which, in proportion to its numbers, sustained the greatest 
loss, killed and died of wounds, of any brigade in the war. 
One of the five regiments composing this brigade sus- 
tained the largest percentage of loss, killed in battle, of 
any regiment in the entire Union Army; and another 
regiment of the brigade takes third place in the greatest 
number killed in action among all the infantry regiments 
in the service. Attached to the brigade and participating 
in all its battles was a four-gun battery of the Regular 
Army (B, 4th U. S. Artillery), which sustained the greatest 
loss, killed and wounded, of any light battery in the war. 

In our membership are those who saw service in the 
Twenty-fifth Regiment, Michigan Infantry, mustered in 
September 22nd, 1862, a battalion of which especially dis- 
tinguished itself on July 4th, 1863, near Green River 
Bridge, Ky., by refusing to surrender to an over- 
whelming cavalry force under Gen. John IT. Morgan. 
Upon a demand being made for its surrender, the 
Colonel returned the famous reply that "the Fourth 



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of July was not a i^ood da}' on which to surren- 
der." After inflieting upon the enemy a loss in 
Idlh^l of a number equal to one-fourth their own little 
band, and woundin<>: a number ecpial to their own, the 
assailants withdrew, leavinji i\wiv killed and wounded on 
the field. The regiment i)articipated the following year 
in the summer campaign in Georgia, and fought with the 
Twenty-third Corps in many of the battles from Tunnel 
Mill, May 7th, to Jonesboro, September 4th. After the 
capture of Atlanta it joined Thomas' Army in the Ten- 
nessee campaign against Hood, and was actively engaged 
in the battle of Franklin, November 30th, and of Nash- 
ville, December 15th and Kjth. In January, 18G5, it ac- 
companied the corps to North Carolina, where it partici- 
pated in the movements of Schofield's Army, and on June 
24th was mustered out of service. The loss of the regi- 
ment, killed in action and mortally wounded, was 1 officer 
and 34 men. 

Our roster includes those serving in the Fifth New 
Hampshire Eegiment of Infantry, which was organized in 
(October, 1801, re-enlisted and served throughout the war 
in the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps. This 
regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle of any 
infantry or cavalry regiment in the whole Union Army; 
losing a total, killed and wounded, of 1,051, of which 18 
officers and 295 men were killed in action or died of 
wounds. Known to the corps and division commanders 
as a reliable regiment, it was the more often called upon 
to face the enemy's fire, or assigned to the post of danger. 
Its first engagement was the battle of Fair Oaks, Va., 
May 31st, 1802, where it lost 20 killed, 147 wounded, and 7 
missing. It sustained severe losses in tlic Soven Days' 
fighting in front of Richmond, June 25th to July 1st, and 
was engaged in the battle of Antietam, Se])tember 17th, 
witli a loss of 13 killed or mortallv wounded. At 



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Fredericksburg the regiment lost 20 killed, 154 wounded, 
and 19 missing; total, 193, out of 303 present — over 63 
per cent. At Gettysburg it fought near Devil's Den, and 
suffered a loss of 27 killed and 53 wounded, out of 12 
officers and 165 men engaged; its Colonel, in command of 
the brigade, was among the killed. Its greatest loss, 
numerically, occurred at Cold Harbor, June 3rd, 1864, 
vrhere the regiment entered the enemy's works, but for 
the lack of suport was forced to relinquish its position. 
It took 577 men into that action, of whom 202 were killed 
or wounded. In the Petersburg assault of June 18th it 
lost 15 killed. It also sustained severe losses during the 
siege of Petersburg, and in the final cami^aign in Vir- 
ginia. At Farmville, April 7th, 1865, two days prior to 
the surrender of Lee's Army, it Avas heavily engaged with 
a loss of 13 killed and 97 wounded. 

It includes those who were members of the Sixth New 
Jersey Infantry, organized August 19th, 1861, that took 
the field in April, 1862, having been assigned to the Second 
Jersey Brigade, in the Third Corps. The brigade was in 
the thick of the fight at AMlliamsburg, May 5th, and the 
"Jerse}' Blues" won a place in history that day. The 
losses of the regiment in this battle were 39 killed, 74 
wounded, and 26 missing. Among the killed was the 
Lieutenant-Colonel commanding. In August following it 
lost at Manassas 21 killed and mortally wounded. The 
brigade also distinguished itself at Chancellorsville by 
the persistency with which it held its ground and repulsed 
the repeated assaults of the enemy, the regiment losing' 
there 6 killed, 53 wounded, and 8 missing. It was engaged 
in the battle of Gettysburg with a loss of 5 killed. It also 
encountered some hard fighting in the Wilderness cam- 
paign, and in the assault on Petersburg, its losses during 
the months of May and June being 15 killed, 99 wounded, 
and 6 missing. In August, 1864, it was; ordered home for 



muster out, luiviiij; sustained a loss of 3 officers and 124 
men, killed in battle or died of wounds, during its three 
years' service. 

We have those who served in the Fortieth New Jersey 
Infantry, organized at Trenton by companies, from Octo- 
ber 24th, 1864, to March 10th, 1865, for one year, each 
company leaving for the front as soon as mustered in the 
United States service. It was attached to the First 
Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps, and participated in 
the Siege of Petersburg, December, 1864, to April, 1865, 
storming of Petersburg April 2nd, pursuit of Lee April 
3rd-9th, including the action at Sailor's Ci-eek April 6th, 
and surrender of Lee's Army at Appomattox Court House 
April 9th. 

Our membership embraces those serving in the Thirty- 
fifth New York Infantry, mustered in June 11th, 1861, for 
two years' ser\'ice. It was on duty in the defences of Wash- 
ington until March, 1862, jDarticipatiug meantime in the 
action at Ball's Cross Roads August 2Tth and 28tli, 1861, 
and skirmish at Munson's Hill August 31st. It formed a 
part of McDowell's Corps in the advance on Manassas in 
March, 1862, on Falmouth in April, and demonstration 
against Richmond in May. After participating in the 
operations against Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, 
June lst-21st, it returned to Falmouth, and on August 6th 
was engaged in the action at Mattapony. August 16th to 
September 2nd it took part in Pope's Virginia campaign, 
including the actions at Rappahannock Station and Sul- 
]»hur Springs, and battles near Manassas. While on the 
jFaryland campaign it served in the First Corps, com- 
manded by Gen. Hooker, and was prominently engaged at 
South Mountain September 141 h, and at Antietam Sep- 
tember 17th, where this command opened the battle. The 
regiment also participated in the battle of Fredericksburg 



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December 13th, and in tbe "Mud March" January 20th- 
24th, 1863, after which it was employed on provost duty at 
Belle Plain, Va., until mustered out in June. It lost dur- 
ing its term of service 1 officer and 40 men killed in action 
or fatally wounded. 

Among our members are those who served in the well- 
known Sixty-ninth Xew York Infantry, that volunteered 
promptly at the outbreak of the war for three months, 
and fought at First Bull Run July 21st, 1861, where its 
Colonel was wounded and cai)tured and the Lieutenant- 
Colonel was killed. The regiment lost there 38 killed, 59 
wounded, and 95 missing; being the greatest loss, with 
one exception, killed and wounded, of any Union regiment 
in that battle. Upon its return home it formed the 
nucleus for another regiment bearing the same number, 
which was enrolled in September, 1861, under a three 
years' enlistment. It served throughout the war in the 
famous Irish Brigade, whose gallantry on so many fields 
attested anew the fidelity and courage of the Irish soldier. 
It lost over 4,000 men killed and wounded, being more 
men than belonged to the brigade at any one time. It 
fought on the Peninsula in Richardson's (1st) Division, 
Second Corps, sustaining severe losses in the battles be- 
fore Richmond, the Sixty-ninth losing at Malvern Hill, 
July 1st, 17 killed, 110 wounded, and 28 missing. At 
Antietam, September 17th, the regiment fought at the 
Bloody Lane, sustaining a loss of 44 killed and 152 
wounded, nearly 62 per cent of the number engaged. In 
that battle it had eight color-bearers successively shot 
down. Gen. Hancock commanded the Division at 
Fredericksburg, where the regiment took part in the 
gallant but unsuccessful assault on Marye's Heights, 
December 13tli, losing 16 officers and 112 men killed and 
wounded, out of 18 officers and 210 men engaged — nearly 
54 per cent. The Color-Sergeant M'as found dead, with 



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his Hag L-oiieealed and wrapped around his body, a bullet 
having pierced the flag and his heart. At Ohancellors- 
Yille it lost 3 killed and 7 wounded. Shortly before the 
battle of Gettysburg the regiment, having become reduced 
by losses, was consolidated into two companies. It was 
engaged there— in Caldwell's Division— in the contest at 
the wheat-field on the second day, losing 5 killed, 14 
wounded, and G missing. Having re-enlisted, it fought in 
all the battles of Grant's Virginia campaign— Gen. Bar- 
low commanding the Division— and lost, in the thirty days 
from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, 30 killed, 152 
wounded, and 39 missing. In the Petersburg assault, 
June 16th-18th, and during the siege, it lost 14 killed, 48 
wounded, and 20 missing. At Hatcher's Run, March 25th, 
1865, it had 7 killed and 33 wounded. In this battle and 
while on the Appomattox campaign, the division was 
commanded by Gen. Miles. During its term of service 
the regiment sustained a loss of 13 officers and 24G men 
killed or mortally wounded in battle. It lost the most 
men in action, killed and wounded, of any infantry regi- 
ment from the State of New York, and its number of killed 
or died of wounds was exceeded by only five other infantry 
regiments in the entire army. 

Our list of members includes those serving in the Sev- 
enty-first New Yoi'k Infantry, organized in August, 1861, 
that formed a part of the noted Excelsior (Sickles) Brigade, 
and fought in all the battles of that command until its 
muster out in 1864. At Williamsburg, May 5th, 1862— 
its first battle— the brigade was serving in Hooker's Divi- 
sion of the Third Corps. This battle was fought almost 
entirely by Hooker's and Kearney's Divisions of the Third 
Corps, and four-fiftlis of the casualties of the corps were 
sustained by the Excelsior, Jersey and Berry's Brigades. 
The regiment also participated in the battle of Fair Oaks, 



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May 31st, and in the Seven Days' flgliting before Kicli- 
mond, with heavy losses. At Manassas, August 27th-31st, 
it had 37 lulled or mortally wouuded, being over 14 per 
cent of the 250 engaged. The Corps was then ordered into 
the defences of Washington, where it remained during the 
Marjdand campaign. The regiment was present at the 
battle of Fredericksburg December 13th, but sustained 
only a slight loss. It was actively engaged, with severe 
losses, at Chancellorsville May 2nd-4th, 1863, a battle in 
which the brunt of the fighting fell on the Third and 
Twelfth Corps. Gen. Berry, commanding the Division, 
was killed in this battle. At Gett^^sburg — in Hum- 
phrey's (2d) Division — it became involved in the disaster 
of the second day's battle, but, like the rest of the Third 
Coi-ps, it fell back in good order to the second line, fight- 
ing as it went. In March, 1864, the Third Corps was dis- 
continued, and the Second Division, under command of 
Gen. Mott, was transferred to the Second Corps. The 
regiment took part during May, 1864, in the campaign 
against Richmond, losing heavily in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvauia and Cold Harbor. It was soon 
after ordered home for muster out, its term having ex- 
I)ired. During its three years' service it lost 5 officers 
and 83 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 

One member of the Post served in the Seventy-fifth New 
York Infantry Regiment, that was recruited in September, 
1861, re-enlisted and served through the war. Its earlier 
service was in the Department of the Gulf, and it partici- 
pated in 1863, with the Ninteenth Corps, in all of Banks', 
Franklin's and Emorj^'s campaigns, including the siege 
and capture of Port Hudson and the Red River Expedi- 
tion. In July, 1864, it proceeded with Grover's (2d) 
Division to New Orleans, and embarked for Virginia. On 
arriving at Washington the division was ordered into 
Marjdand to confront Earlj^'s invasion, after which it 



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served in tlie Slieiiaiuloali N'alley in Sheridan's Aum}'. 
The regiment took part in the battles of Opequon, Fisher's 
Hill and Cedar Creek, losing- heavily in each of these 
engagements. The fighting in the valley' having ended, 
the Second Division Avas ordered, in January, 1865, to 
Savannah, Ga., and n])()n arrival there (len. Grover was 
assigned to the command of the district, and Gen. Birge 
to the command of the division. In March the division 
l)roceeded to North Carolina, where it was temporarily 
attached to the Tenth Corps, but returned to SaA'aunah 
in May, the regiment remaining in that vicinity until its 
muster out in August. During its term of service 4 
officers and 91 of its men were killed or mortally wounded 
in action. The regiment returned home in command of 
a Captain, now a member of this Post, who had entered 
its ranks in 18G1 as a private soldier. 

In our membership are those who saw service in the 
Eighty-first New York Infantry, that was organized in 
December, 1861, and was mustered out August 31st, 
1865. Upon its arrival in Washington in Febru- 
ary, 1862, it was assigned to Palmer's Brigade, 
Casey's Division, Third Corps. The regiment fought 
well at Fair Oaks, May 31st, where its Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel commanding Avas wounded, and Major 
killed. It lost in that battle 25 killed, 92 wounded, and 
20 missing. Upon the AvithdraAval of the army from the 
Peninsula the Eighty-first Avas retained at YorktoAvn, 
Avitli Gen. Keyes in command. In December the regiment 
AAas ordered to join Gen. Foster's troops in North 
Carolina, Avhere it remained on duty in the vicinity of 
Beaufort and Morehead for several months. In NoAeni- 
ber, 1863, it Avas stationed on outpost duty along the 
Dismal Swamp Canal, \i\. Having re-enlisted, the 
regiment went home on a thirtA' days' furlough in March, 
1864, and u])on its return to the front was ordered to 



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Yorktowu and assij^iied to the Eigliteeutli Corps. It 
accomf>anied Butler's Army to Bermuda Hundred, and 
fought at Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, in Marston's (1st) 
Brigade, Brook's (1st) Division, losing 2 killed, IT 
wounded, and 4 missing. At Cold Harbor, June 1st, the 
regiment distinguished itself in the assault, where it led 
the brigade in a charge, but with a loss of half its number. 
In this battle it lost 40 killed, 159 wounded— 26 of whom 
afterwards died of their injuries — and 10 missing, being 
the heaviest loss of any infantry regiment on the field. 
Larger losses occurred in some of the heavy artillery regi- 
ments engaged there, but they had three times as many 
men in line. In July Gen. Stannard succeeded to the 
command of the First Division, and led it in the victorious 
assault on Fort Harrison (Chaflfin's Farm) September 29th, 
the regiment losing 9 killed and 50 wounded. At the 
battle of Darbytown Eoad (Fair Oaks), October 27th, the 
Corps was commanded by Gen. Weitzel, the regiment sus- 
taining a small loss in wounded men. When the Eigh- 
teenth Corj^s was discontinued, December 3d, the regi- 
ment was transferred to Riijley's Brigade, Deven's 
Division, of the newly-formed Twenty-fourth Corps. Upon 
the fall of Petersburg this division, with the Twenty-fifth 
Corps, under command of Gen. Weitzel, marched on 
Richmond, and, encountering little or no opposition, 
entered the city on the 3rd of April, 1865. During its 
term of service the regiment sustained a loss of 13 officers 
and 129 men, killed or mortally wounded in battle. 

We have one representative of the Ninety-second New 
York Infantr}^, mustered into the United States service in 
January, 1862, which participated with Casey's Division, 
Fourth Corps, in the fighting on the Peninsula under Mc- 
Clellan. At Fair Oaks, May 31st, the regiment sustained 
a severe loss, the full force of the Confedei'ate attack being 



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directed iipou an advance position held b}^ Casey's Divi- 
sion. When the army abandoned its position before 
Richmond in Aiignst the KSecond Division, then com- 
manded by Gen. Peck, remained on the Peninsula. In 
December the regiment was ordered to North Carolina, 
and took part in the actions at Kinston and Goldsboro 
December 14 and 17th. On March 14th, 1863, a gaiTison 
of 300 men of this regiment in Fort Anderson, opposite 
New Berne, successfully repulsed an attack of Pet- 
tigrew with a division of infantry and 17 guns. It 
remained in North Carolina — in the Eighteenth Corps — 
until the spring of 18G4, when the corps was concen- 
trated at Yorktown under Gen. Butler, and on 
May 6th — ^the same day Grant was fighting in the 
"Wilderness — landed at Bermuda Hundred. A series of 
bloody battles followed, the regiment suffering a severe 
loss in the one at Drewry's Bluff May 16th, fighting in 
Brook's Division, The corps was then ordered to re-in- 
force the Army of the Potomac, and made a gallant but 
unsuccessful attack on the intrenchments at Cold Harbor 
June 1st, sustaining a heavy loss. On September 29th 
the regiment participated in tlie brilliant and successful 
assault on Fort Harrison, at Chaffin's Farm, and was also 
engaged in the battle of Fair Oaks October 27th, which 
was fought on the old battlefield of 1862. January 7th, 
1865, the regiment was mustered out by reason of expira- 
tion of term. Its loss while in the sers'ice, killed in action 
and died of wounds, was 1 officer and 67 men. 

Among our members are those serving in the One Hun- 
dred and Fifteenth Regiment, New York Infantry, known 
as the "Iron Hearts," that was recruited in July 
and August, 1862. It arrived at Sandy Hook, Md., 
August 31st, where arms and equipments were 
furnished. Two weeks later the entire regiment 
was captured in the surrender of Harper's Ferry, 



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and after beiug paroled it was ordered to Chicago 
to await exchange. During 1SG3 the regiment was 
stationed at Hilton Head and Beaufort, S. C, and thence, 
on February 5th, 1864, sailed for Florida. At the battle 
of Olustee Fla., February 20th, the regiment made a 
gallant fight, losing 33 killed, 241 wounded, and 22 mis- 
sing. In April it sailed with the Tenth Corps for Virginia 
and joined Gen. Butler's Army of the James at Yorktown. 
It served in Barton's (2d) Brigade, Turner's (2d) Division, 
Tenth Corps, and in the actions around Drewry's Bluff 
and Bermuda Ilundred, May Gth-lGth, it lost 6 killed, 87 
wounded, and 7 missing. It fought at Cold Harbor June 
1st, while temporarily attached to the Eighteenth Corps, 
losing G killed and several v.ounded. Returning to the 
James, it rejoined the Tenth Corps and went into position 
before Petersburg. Re-crossing the James, the regiment 
was engaged at Deep Bottom August 14th, where it lost 
5 killed, 44 wounded, and 24 missing. At the battle of 
Chaffin's Farm, September 29th, the regiment was in the 
fight at Fort Gilmer, where it lost half its number present 
in action. On October 27tli it joined in the advance on 
Richmond on the Darbytown Road, in which affair it sus- 
tained considerable loss from a volley fired into them, 
through mistake, b}' another Union regiment. The Tenth 
Corps having been discontinued, the regiment was trans- 
ferred to Ames' Division of the newly-formed Twenty- 
fourth Corps, and in December embarked for North Caro- 
lina. It formed a part of both the Butler and Terry 
expeditions for the capture of Fort Fisher, the first prov- 
ing a failure, but our troops winning a famous victory un- 
der the latter officer on January 15th, 18G5. The casual- 
ties of the regiment in that engagement — including some 
lives lost at the explosion of the magazine the day after 
the fort was taken — were 11 killed, 32 wounded, and 1 
missing. The regiment lost 7 officers and 128 men, killed 



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or mortally wounded in battle, during its term of service. 
Our membership embraces those who served in the 
One Hundred and Twenty-second New York Infantry, 
organized in August, 1802, and assigned to Newton's 
(3d) Division, Sixth Corps, with which corps it served 
continuously until the close of the war. At Fred- 
ericksburg, December 13th, it Avas under a severe 
artillery fire, but not actively engaged. At the 
battle of Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863, on the same field, 
it took part in tlie assault on Marye's Heights, and that 
strong position was carried at the point of the bayonet. 
At Gettysburg the Sixtli Corps was held in reserve, ex- 
cepting Shaler's Brigade, which was sent as a support to 
the Twelfth C()r])s on the morning of July 3d. The regi- 
ment went into action with 320 men, losing 10 killed and 
35 wounded. November Tth it participated in the unsuc- 
4"essful assault on the enemy's entrenchments at 
Rappahannock Station, sustaining a severe loss. The 
regiment crossed the Kapidan May 1th, 18r)l, with 426 
officers and men, and after the battles of the Wilderness 
and Spottsylvania could muster only about 200 muskets 
for the assault on Cold Harbor June 1st, where it had 10 
killed and 57 wounded. On July 10th it embarked Avith 
the division at City Point for Washington, to aid in check- 
ing Early's forces then advancing through Maryland. 
On the 12th it took part in the battle of Fort Stevens, 
within the city limits, sustaining a loss of 7 killed and J 9 
wounded. Bidwell's (3d) Brigade, Second Division, Sixth 
Corps — of which the 122d formed a part — lost in that 
battle 52 killed and 03 wounded; total, 115. The entire 
loss of the Union Army on the 11th and 12th was 51 killcvl 
and :>10 wound*-!; total, 373. The corps followed in i)ur- 
suit of Early through Maryland, into Virginia, and up 
the Shenandoah Valley. Then came the memorable cam- 
paign under Sheridan, and tlie victoiios at Opequon, 



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Fisher's Hill and (Vdar Creek, in all of wliicli tlie regi- 
ment participated. It took 220 men into the battle of 
Opeqnon, and in that engagement and the affair at 
Fisher's Hill, lost 8 killed and 38 wounded. In December 
the regiment returned to the Petersburg trenches, and 
on the 2d day of April, 1865, occurred the grand and suc- 
cessful assault on tlie fortifications of Petersburg, 
followed by the hot pursuit of Lee's retreating veterans, 
during which the regiment fought at Sailor's Creek April 
Gtli. While in the service it lost officers and 85 men, 
liilled or mortally wounded in battle. 

We have those serving in the One Hundred and 
Fortieth Regiment, New York Infantry, mustered 
into service September 13th, 1862, leaving the 
state on September 20th. It joined the Army of 
the Potomac in November, aud was assigned to 
Warren's (3d) Brigade, Syke's (2d) Division, Fifth Corps. 
It was present with this command at Fredericksburg, 
where it was under fire for the first time, a few of the men 
being wounded there, and at Chancellorsville was engaged 
with a small loss. In the battle of Gettysburg the brigade 
was commanded by Gen. Weed, and was detached by Gen. 
AVarren, then Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, 
to occupy and hold Little Round Top, on the afternoon of 
July 2d, and their prompt action aided largely in seizing 
that important position at a critical moment. The loss 
of the regiment was 26 killed, 89 wounded, and 18 miss- 
ing; its Colonel was among the number killed. In March, 
1864, it was placed in the brigade with the regulars under 
command of Gen. Ayres, but in June was transferred to 
the First Brigade of Ayres' (2d) Division. The regiment 
was in the hottest of the fighting at the Wilderness, and 
suffeied severely there, losing 23 killed, 118 wounded — of 
which 22 after^Tka^ds died of their injuries — and 114 cap- 
tured or missing. Three days later — on May 8th — it was 



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euiiiiiied ill the first of the series of battles at Spottsyl- 
vania, in wliich action its Coloiiel and Major were killed. 
The casualties of the re<j;inient at Spottsylvania were 12 
killed and 48 wounded. During the siege of Petersburg 
it was engaged, August lOth, in the battle at the Weldou 
Railroad, losing 4 killed, 19 wounded, and 51 captured 
or missing. It lost 20 killed or fatally wounded in the 
Petersburg trenches, and at Hatcher's llun October 27th, 
White Oak Koad, March 31st, 18G5, and Five Forks 
April 1st. The regiment was composed of exceptionally 
good material; the men were a neat, clean lot, and in 
their handsome Zouave costume attracted favorable at- 
tention wherever they ai)peared. It sustained a loss, 
during its term of service, of 8 officers and 111 men, killed 
in action or died of wounds; 77 members of the regiment 
died while confined in Southern prisons. 

Included among our members is one who served in the 
One Hundred and Forty-eighth New York Infantry, 
organized in September, 18f!2, and assigned to the 
Seventh Corps, Department of Mrginia under com- 
mand of Gen. John A. Dix, at Fort Monroe. In 
the spring of 1803 the regiment was stationed 
at Suffolk, Ya., and aided in the defense of that place 
against Longstreet's besieging army. After the raising 
of the siege — on May 4th — the regiment remained at 
Suffolk and Norfolk during the remainder of 1863, doing 
garrison and picket duty. In April, 1864, the Eighteenth 
Corps — to which a ixution of the Seventh had been prev- 
iously transferred — was concentrated at Yorktown, 
pre])aratory to the spring campaign of the Army of the 
James. All the hard fighting in the history of this regi- 
ment was encountered in the engageinents which fol- 
lowed during the succeeding twelve months. It partici- 
pated in the battles of Drewry's Bluff May 16th, and Port 
Walthall :\Iay 2(;th. The Eighteenth Corps was then 



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ordered to re-iuf orce the Army of the Potomac, and moved 
b}'^ transports down the James and up the York River 
to White House Landing, from whence it marched to Cold 
Harbor. The regiment took part in the unsuccessful 
assault at that place on June 3d, losing 20 killed, 100 
wounded, and 4 missing. Returning to Bermuda 
Hundred on the 14th, it advanced with the corps the fol- 
lowing day on Petersburg and assaulted the works that 
evening, sustaining a loss of IG killed, 74 wounded, and 
26 missing. In September it moved to the north bank of 
the James, and was engaged in the victorious assault on 
Fort Harrison, at Chaffin's Farm, on the 29th, and in the 
battle at Darbytown Road October 27th, fought on the 
old battlefield of Fair Oaks in 1862. In December the 
regiment was transferred to the Twenty-fourth Corps, 
and in March, 1865, crossed with Foster's Division to the 
south bank of the James and Appomattox Rivers, and 
joined the main army at Hatcher's Run. In the general 
assault on Petersburg, April 2d, it participated in the 
brilliant and successful attack at Fort Gregg. It was 
engaged in a sharp fight at Rice's Station, or High Bridge, 
on the 6th. In the forenoon of April 9th, the day of Lee's 
surrender, the corps was briskly engaged near Appo- 
mattox Court House, and had the honor of making the 
last infantry fight of that campaign and of the war. The 
regiment lost, while in the service, 4 officers and 112 men 
killed or mortally wounded — nearly 11 per cent of its 
enrollment. 

We have those who were members of the One Hundred 
and Eighty-eighth New York Infantry, organized in 
October, 1864, for two years' service, and joined 
the Army of the Potomac and was attached to 
the Second Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps. 
It participated in the siege of Petersburg from 
October, 1864, to April, 1865, and actions at Hatcher's 



Kim October 27tli and 28tli, 1804, and the Hicksford Kaid 
December Tth-lltli. It was also engaged in the battle of 
Dabney's Mill February 5th-Tth, 1865; Gravelly Eun 
March 29th, White Oak Road March 30th and 31st, and 
Five Forks April 1st. During its five months' field ser- 
vice it lost 1 officer and 30 men killed or mortally 
wounded in action. 

One of our members served in the Second Ohio Regiment 
of Infantry, recruited in August, 1801, that furnished four 
of the tweutj^-two volunteers who captured a locomotive 
at Big Shanty, Ga., and made the famous raid along the 
line of the Atlanta and Chattanooga Railroad in April, 
1862. After an exciting chase, lasting several hours, all 
were captured. Being in citizens' dress within an 
enemy's lines, the whole party were held as spies. A 
court-martial was convened, and the leader and seven 
others were condemned and executed. Of the remaining 
fourteen, eight succeeded, by a bold effort — attacking 
their guard in broad daylight — in making their escape 
from Atlanta, Ga., and ultimately in reaching the North. 
The other six, who shared in this effort, but were re- 
captured, remained prisoners until the latter part of 
March, 1863, when they were exchanged through a special 
arrangement made by Secretary Stanton. "It was a 
daring deed, and without an equal in its thrilling story 
of danger, intrepidity, heroic suffering and death."* The 
regiment fought at Perryville, Ky., October 8th, 1862, in 
Rousseau's Division, McCook's Corps, Army of the Ohio. 
Over three-fourths of the casualties in that battle oc- 
curred in McCook's Corps. In the battle of Stone's River, 
December 31st, it was engaged with a severe loss, its 
Lieutenant-Colonel being among the number killed. The 

*"D;irinfi- and Rnfferinp:." by Rev. Wm. Pittinger (2d Ohio). 



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regiment participated iu the campaign from Murfrees- 
boro in June, 1863, and fought in Baird's Division, Four- 
teenth Corps, at Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 
and in Johnson's Division at Missionary Ridge November 
25th. At Chicl^aniauga it sustained a heavy loss, 
including the Lieutenant-Colonel wounded and Major 
wounded and captured. In May, 18C4, it moved with 
Sherman's Army on the advance which was to culminate 
in the possession of Atlanta. It took part in all the fight- 
ing of the division until July 27th, when it was ordered 
back to Chattanooga for muster out. The regiment lost, 
during its three years' service, 9 officers and 96 men killed 
in action or died of wounds. 

Our roster includes those serving in the Seventh Ohio 
Infantry, which is credited vvith being one of the finest 
regiments in the service. It was raised in Northern Ohio, 
with rendezvous at Cleveland, and was composed of ex- 
ceptionall}' good material. Its ranks included men of 
culture and good social position — clergymen, students, 
teachers, farmers and mechanics. They enlisted 
promptly at the first news of the war, organizing in April, 
1861, for the three months' service, but entered the three 
years' service, almost to a man, when the second call for 
troops was made. It left the State June 26th, and pro- 
ceeded to West Virginia. While encamped by itself at 
Cross Lanes, W. Va., it was attacked, August 26th, by a 
large force under Gen. Floyd; the regiment made an 
obstinate defense, but was driven from the field with a 
severe loss, many of the men being captured. It fought 
in the Shenandoah Valley campaigns, in Shield's Division, 
losing at Kernstown, March 23d, 20 killed, 55 wounded, 
and 10 missing. The battle of Cedar Mountain, August 
9th, was fought hj the troops which afterwards consti- 
tuted the Twelfth Corps. The regiment was engaged there 
in Geary's Brigade, Augur's (Second) Division, sustaining 



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a lt>s8 of 31 killfd, 140 woiuulcd, and 2 iiiissiuj;', out of 307 
present; nearly (>0 per cent. In addition 1o the killed, 24 
afterwards died of th(4r wonnds, niakini^- the total deaths 
in this engagement 55 — nearly IS per cent. tJen. Greene 
commanded the division at Antietam, Sei)tenil)ei' 17th, 
where the regiment lost 5 killed ami 33 wounded. At 
Chancellorsville, May lst-4th, it lost 16 killed, G2 wounded, 
and 21 missing. In that battle and all its subsequent en- 
iiajiements the division was commanded bv (Jen. Gearv. 
After participating in the battle of Gettysburg with a 
slight loss, the regiment was ordered with the Twelfth 
Corps, in September, to Tennessee, as a reinforcement to 
Rosecrans. Geary's Division effected a junction with the 
beleagured army at Chattanooga, and on November 24th 
came the brilliant victory at Lookout Mountain, where the 
"AYhite Star" Division fought its famous battle above the 
clouds. At the battle of Ringgold, Cra., November 27tli, 
the regiment lost IG killed and 58 wounded, out of 20() 
present. In this engagement the Coh)nel, Lieutenant- 
Colonel, "VAdju tan t and two Lieutenants were kilh^l, while 
the remaining ofticers, with one exception, were all 
wounded. In April, 1804, the designation of the corps was 
changed to that of the Twentieth. The regiment partici- 
pated in the battles of Resaca May 14th and 15th, and New 
Hope Church May 25th, on the Atlanta campaign, and on 
-lune 24th was ordered home for muster out, its ttnin of 
service having exjjired. Its entire loss in battle, killed and 
mortally wounded,- was 10 officers and 174 men — 13 per 
cent of the total enrollment. 

In the Post are those who served in the Thirteenth Ohio 
Infantry Regiment, that was recruited in June, 18G1, for 
three years, re-enlisted in December, 18G3, and served 
through the war. It took an active part in the battle of 
Sliiloh, April 7tli, 18G2, in Crittenden's Division, Army of 
the Ohio, and of Stone's River, December 31st, in Palmer's 



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Division, sustaining severe losses in both engagements. 
Its Colonel was killed in the fight at Stone's RiA^er. At 
Chiekamauga, September 19th and 20th, it was again 
heavilj' engaged, serving in Van Cleave's (Third) Division, 
Crittenden's (Twenty-first) Corps, and where its Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel commanding was killed. At Orchard Knob 
November 23d, and Missionary Ridge November 25tli, it 
fought in Beatty's (Third) Brigade, Wood's (Third) Di- 
vision, Granger's (Fourth) Corps. In 1864 it took part, 
with the same command, in the struggle for Atlanta, and 
from May until September was activel}' engagcnl in the 
continuous marching and fighting which was so character- 
istic of that brilliant campaign. After the fall of Atlanta 
the corps joined Thomas' Army in the Tennessee campaign 
against Hood, particii)ating in the bloody repulse of the 
enemy at Franklin, and the decisive victory at Nashville. 
The total loss of the regiment, killed in action and died of 
wounds, numbered 8 officers and 109 men. 

Among our members ar(^ those who saw service in the 
Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, that was recruited in April, 
18G1, in resi)onse to the first call for troops for three 
months' service. It served its term in West Virginia, dur- 
ing which it fought in the minor engagements of Phillippi 
June 3d, Laurel Hill July 8th, and Carrick's Ford July 
14th, all prior to the battle of first Bull Run. A member 
of Ihe Post then serving in this regiment was wounded 
at ("arrick's Ford. Upon its return home it re-assembled 
after a short furlougli and volunteered for three j'ears, 
with but little change in its organization. In August, 
1861, it proceeded to Kentucky, where it was assigned to 
Manson's Brigade, and w^as engaged for several months 
in the various movements against the Confederate forces. 
It moved with BuelTs Army in March, 1862, to reinforce 
Grant, but did not arrive at Shiloh until the fighting was 
over. After participating in the siege of Corinth, it 



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iiiaicht'd with the Army of the Ohio ou its arduous cam- 
paigus iu Tennessee and Kentucky. At Perryville it was 
in Fry's Brigade of Schoepf's Division, but was not en- 
gaged, after which it went into winter quarters at Gal- 
latin, Teun. It fought at Chickaniauga September 19th 
and 20tli, 1SG3, in C'roxton's (Second) Brigade, Brannan's 
(Third) Division, Fourteenth Corps, losing 35 killed, 167 
wounded, and 13 missing; total 215, out of 119 engaged. 
Of the wounded 10 afterwards died, making the total 
deaths iu that engagement 81 — over 18 per cent During 
the Atlanta campaign from May to September, 1861, it 
served in Este's (Third) Brigade, Baird's (Third) Division, 
Fourteenth Corps. This brigade distinguished itself, par- 
ticularly', at Jouesboro, August 31st, where it carried the 
enemy's works by assault, losing one-third of its number 
within a few minutes. The loss of the regiment in this 
engagement was 10 killed and 71 wounded. Among the 
killed were several meu whose term of service had expired 
but who v(dunteered to go into this action. The regi- 
ment having re-onlisted, it remained in the Fourteenth 
Corps until the close of the war, and with that command 
luirticipated in the march to the sea, and campaign of the 
Carolinas. It lost during its term of service, 5 officers 
and 111 men killed in battle or died of wounds. 

Our membersliip iucludes one who saw four years' 
campaigning with the Twenty-seventh Ohio Infantry, that 
was mustered into the United States service in July, 
1861, and nearly every effective man re-enlisted as vet- 
erans in 1801. After participating in the capture of New 
Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, in March, 1862, it took 
part, in April and May, with Pope's Army of the Missis- 
sippi, in the advance upon Corinth and siege of that place. 
It was engaged in the battel of luka. Miss., September 
19th, in Stanley's Division, and at the battle of Corinth, 
October 1th, made a gallant charge, sustaining a severe 



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loss in killed and woimded. The regiment remained at 
Corinth until November, 18C3, when it moved with Sher- 
man's Army to the relief of Chattanooga, marching to 
Pulaski, Tenu., where it was left to guard the Xashville 
& Decatur Kailroad. With Fuller's Division, Sixteenth 
Corps, it participated in the Atlanta campaign from May 
to September, 1864, and at the bloody battle of Atlanta, 
July 22d — Hood's second sortie — was in the thickest of 
the fighting, and sustained a heavy loss. After the fall 
of Atlanta it accompanied Sherman's Army — in MoTver's 
Division, Seventeenth Corps — on the march to the sea. 
Little or no fighting was encountered by the corps on the 
march through Georgia, but its advance through the 
Carolinas was marked by several minor engagements, 
culminating in the battle of Bentonville, March 19th, 
18G5. There were long, toilsome marches, also, with wide 
rivers to cross ajid swamps to wade, many of which were 
forded under the enemy's fire. The regiment lost 6 officers 
and 80 men, killed or mortally wounded in action, during 
its term of service. 

It embraces one who served for three years in the Fifty- 
ninth Ohio Infantry, organized October 1st, 18G1, and 
entered immediately upon Nelson's campaign in Eastern 
Kentucky, meeting the enemy in several minor affairs 
during October and November. On February 15th, 18G2, 
it marched with the Army of the Ohio on Bowling Green 
and Nashville, thence to Savannah, Tenn., participating 
in the battle of Shiloh April fith and 7th, in Crittenden's 
(Fifth) Division. After sharing in the siege operations 
about Corinth, the regiment marched with Buell's troops 
in pursuit of Bragg, through Northern Alabama, Ten- 
nessee and Kentucky. After the battle of Perryville, 
October 8th, it took part with the Second Brigade of Van 
Cleve's Division, Crittenden's Corps, in the forward move- 
ment to Nashville and Murfreesboro, and was engaged 



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iu the hard-foiiglit battle of Stone's Kiver, Tenn., Decem- 
ber 30tli and 31st. The army lay at Murfreesboro during 
the ensuing six months, and then started on its advance 
to Chattanooga, and on September 19th and 20th, 1863, 
the battle of Chickamanga was fought. Soon after this 
battle the Twentieth and Twenty-first Corps were con- 
solidated, forming the Fourth Corps, and the regiment 
Avas assigned to Beatty's (Third) Brigade, of Wood's 
(Third) Division. With this command it participated in 
the action at Orchard Knob November 23d, and in the 
brilliant and successful charge up the heights at Mission- 
ary Kidge November 25th. Immediately after this battle 
it marched with the Fourth Corps to the relief of Knox- 
ville, and then passed the winter in East Tennessee. On 
the Atlanta campaign in 1864 the corps encountered some 
hard fighting at Pickett's Mills May 2Tth, and in the un- 
successful assault on Kenesaw Mountain June 27th. 
After the fall of Atlanta the regiment Avas ordered back 
to Nashville, and on October 31st w^as mustered out, its 
term of service having expired. Its loss in battle, killed 
or died of wounds, was 2 officers and 45 men. 

We have those who went out in August, 1862, with the 
Xinety-third Regiment, Ohio Infantry, that started on the 
date of its muster into the United States service for the 
seat of war in Kentucky, and w^as assigned to McCook's 
Corps. On October 1st it advanced with the army from 
Louisville, and on the Sth the Second Division was en- 
gaged in the action at Lawrenceburg, and did not reach 
Perry ville in time to take part iu that battle. At Stone's 
Biver, December 31st, the regiment sustained a severe 
loss, and again at Chickamauga, September 19th and 
20th, 1863, its Colonel being mortally wounded in the 
latter battle. Upon the reorganization of the army in 
October the regiment became a part of Ilazeu's (Second) 
Brigade, Wood's (Third) Division, Fourth Corps. In the 



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successful charge on Orchard Knob, November 23d, and 
storming of the heights of Missionary Kidge on the 25th, 
the regiment lost 19 killed and G9 wounded; among the 
killed was the Major commanding. After that battle the 
corps started at once for Knoxville, for the relief of Burn- 
side, and then remained in that vicinity until the follow- 
ing spring. In May, 1SG4, the regiment moved on the 
Atlanta campaign and was engaged in all the battles of 
the corps, its hardest fighting occurring at Pickett's Mills 
May 27th, and Kenesaw Mountain June 23d and 27th. 
After the evacaation of Atlanta it marched northward, 
with the Fourth Corps, to confront Hood's forces, and 
took part in the bloody engagement at Franklin, Tenn., 
November 30th, and in the last battle — the last victory of 
the corps at Nashville, December 15th and 16th. During 
its term of service the regiment sustained a loss of 4 
officers and 106 men killed in action or fatally wounded, 
being 10.5 per cent of its total enrollment. 

One of our members enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Ninety-second "Regiment, Ohio Infantry, organized March 
9th, 1865, for one year, and mustered out September 1st. 
Its field of operations was in the Shenandoah Valley, and 
during its brief service before the surrender of the rebel 
armies was not engaged in any battles or arduous cam- 
paigns. It can, however, claim having in its ranks the 
shortest man, for whom the record is satisfactorily veri- 
fied, among over 1,000,000 soldiers in the Union Army 
whose heights are recorded. At the time of enlistment 
this soldier was 21 years of age and measured 40 inches in 
height. The average height of the American soldiers, as 
shown hj the records of the recruiting officers, was 5 feet 
8^ inches. The tallest man, for whose stature the testi- 
mony is complete and unimpeachable, was full 82| inches, 
without his shoes. 



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luchuled ill our imMubersliip iire those serving in the 
Tenth liegiment, A^riuont Infantry, organized in August, 
18G2, whose death roll includes 9 officers and 140 men 
kiHed in battle or mortally wounded, being over 11 per 
cent of the total number borne upon its rolls. After nearly 
a year's service in Maryland doing guard duty, it joined 
the Army of the Potomac in July, 1863, and was assigned 
to Morris' (First) Brigade, Carr's (Second) Division, Third 
C'orps. The regiment first encountered the enemy at 
Locust Grove (Mine TUiu), November 27th, in which ac- 
tion it took a commendable part, losing 11 killed, 56 
wounded, and 2 missing. In March, 1861, the Third Corps 
having been discontinued, the division was transferred 
to the Sixth Corps. The division, under command of Gen. 
Ricketts, took a prominent part in the storming of Cold 
Harbor, June 1st. The regiment suffered severely in this 
unsuccessful assault, its casualties amounting to 28 killed, 
131 wounded — of which 26 afterwards died from their 
injuries — and 3 missing. In July it was ordered, with 
the Sixth Corps, to Baltimore and Washington to confront 
Early and his forces then invading Maryland. On the 
Otli the regiment took part in the battle of Monocacy, 
Md., losing 5 killed and a number wounded. After pur- 
suing Eaily into Virginia, the cori)s came under Sheri- 
dan's command, in the Army of the Shenandoah, with 
which it participated in the memorable victories of Ope- 
(juon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. In the latter battle 
occurred the famous incident of Sheridan's Ride from 
Winchester. At the battle of the ()pe<iuon, September 
19th, the regiment lost 12 killed and 53 wounded. It took 
17 officers and 260 uk^u into action at Cedar Creek, Octo- 
ber 19th, losing there 16 killed, 65 wounded, and 1 miss- 
ing. The cMuipaign in the Shenan(h»ah ^"alley having 
been successfully ended, the Sixth Cori)s returned to 
Petersburg in DecemlxM-. The regiuu'ut was engaged in 



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the graud, victorious assault ou the lines about Peters- 
burg, April 2nd, 1865, with a loss of 44 killed and 
wouuded, and was the first regiment in the division to 
plant its colors inside the enemy's works. 

We have representatives of the Eighteenth Regiment, 
United States Infantry, which sustained the heaviest loss 
in action of any regiment of the Regular Army during 
the war, having 9 ofiicers and 209 men killed in battle or 
died of Avounds. It was recruited under the President's 
proclamation of May 3d, 1861, headquarters being located 
at Columbus, Ohio, the recruits coming principally from 
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The organization was to have 
contained three battalions of eight companies each, but 
the Third Battalion was never fully organized, and its 
companies were attached to the other battalions. In De- 
cember, 1861, twelve companies took the field, four more 
companies joining this detachment in March, 1862; eight 
more companies joined during the year. At the battle of 
Stone's River, December 31st, 1862, where the regiment 
encountered its hardest fighting, it served in the Regular 
Brigade, Rousseau's (First) Division, Fourteenth Corps. 
It took 603 officers and men into that engagement, 48 per 
cent of whom were killed or wounded. Its casualties 
were 60 killed, 224 wounded, and 7 missing — the greatest 
number killed and wouuded of any regiment on that field. 
Forty-two of the wounded afterwards died of their in- 
juries. At Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, 1863, 
it lost 33 killed, 152 mounded, and 118 captured or miss- 
ing. The regiment also sustained severe losses on the 
Atlanta campaign, having 22 killed at New Hope Church 
May 25th, 14 at Utoy Creek August 5th and 6th, and 12 
at Jonesboro August 31st, 1864. The First Division was 
commanded, at Chickamauga, by Gen. Baird, and on the 
Atlanta campaign by Gen. Johnson; the Regular Brigade 
(Second Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps) 



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was under coimiiaiul of (Ten. John H. King. After the 
Athmta campaign, in October, 18G4, the regiment was 
consolidated into one battalion, and was withdrawn from 
active service in the field. 

Among our members is one who first served in an In- 
diana Regiment, and in 1803 was commissioned as Cap- 
tain in the Second Regiment, United States Colored 
Infantry. Almost the entire loss, in action, of this regi- 
ment, occurred in one engagement — Natural Bridge, Fla., 
March (ith, 18(55, where it lost 14 killed, 44 wounded, and 
12 missing. Eleven officers of the regiment, including the 
Colonel and Chaplain, died from yellow fever in the sum- 
mer of 18r)4, while it was stationed at Fort Taylor, Key 
West, Fla. It was the first colored regiment to visit New 
York City, occupying City Hall Park during all of 
Thanksgiving Day in 1803, while awaiting transporta- 
tion to New Orleans. 

We also have a member who was graduated from West 
Point in 1804, commissioned in the Engineer Corps, U. S. 
A., and immediately assigned to duty as Chief Engineer, 
Twentieth Army Corps. He took part as such in the At- 
lanta campaign, and served as Chief Engineer, Left 
Wing, Sherman's Army, on the march to the sea, siege of 
Savannah, and campaign of the Carolinas. He was an 
active i)articipant in the famous defence of Allatoona 
Pass, Ga., October 5th, 1804, where the small garrison 
of less than 2,000 men successfully repulsed the repeated 
assaults of an entire Confederate division, after a struggle 
histing the entire day, but with a loss of one-third the 
comnmnd. It was during this engagement that Gen. 
Sherman, from the top of Kenesaw Mountain, signaled 
over the lunids of the enemy the message on which was 
leased the poi)ular hymn, "Hold the Fort." After the 
batth^ was ended, Gen. Corse, in command at Allatoona, 



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signaled to Sherman, "I am short a cheekbone and an ear, 
but am able to whip all h — 1 yet." 

Our membership includes one who saw three years' 
active service in the Navy, most of which was on the gun- 
boat Tyler, that took part in the battle of Belmont, Mo., 
November 7th, 1801, capture of Forts Henry and Donel- 
son in February, 1SG2, and rendered effective aid to the 
army at the battle of Shiloh April 6th and 7th. The 
Tyler was hotly engaged in the fight with the Confederate 
ram Arkansas near the mouth of the Yazoo River, July 
15th, and formed a part of the fleet which successfully 
ran the batteries at Yicksburg, April 16th, 1863. It par- 
ticipated in the attack on Grand Gulf April 29th, two 
assaults on Yicksburg, and in numerous other encounters 
which eventuated in the opening of the Mississippi. 

We have another member who was graduated from the 
Naval Academy in 1860, and assigned to duty on the brig- 
Perry, that captured the Rebel privateer ^^avannah in 
1861. He served on the gunboat Scioto, West Gulf 
Squadron, in 1862-3, participating in the bombardment 
and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, and capture 
of New Orleans April 25th, 1862. On July 9th, 1863, while 
on an inland expedition on the coast of Texas, he lost an 
arm in an engagement with guerillas. 

We have in our membership one of the three survivors 
of a crew of sixty-nine persons who were on the gunboat 
Tulip, of the Potomac Flotilla, when her boiler exploded 
November 11th, 1864 All but ten of the crew were killed 
by the explosion, or drowne<l in the Potomac River. Of 
the number rescued, seven died within a few hours from 
being scalded, or from exposure, having remained in the 
water nearly two hours before being picked up. 

Among the membei's of the Post is one who saw 35 
months' consecutive sea service in the gunboats Wyan- 
dotte and Aries, on the North Atlantic Squadron, Wil- 



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iiiiugtoii Blockade, East Gulf Squadron and West Indies; 
one Avlio cruised in 1SG2-4 on the North Atlantic Station 
after the Eebel Privateer Florida; another who served 
in the United States steamer Montgomery of the West 
Gulf Blockading Squadron, and on detached service 
scouring the Gulf for blockade runners, several of which 
were captured. The following episode is related by the 
comrade then serving on this ship: "One fine morning in 
October, 1862, the Montgomery, only a few hours out 
from Havana, Cuba, en route to Pensacola, Fla., discov- 
ered the blockade runner Gen. Rusk steaming down the 
coast between the reefs and the main land. Chase was 
promptly given and, as the Rusk refused to stop, a fifteen- 
inch Dahlgreen gun was trained on her. Altogether 16 
shots were fired at the Rebel craft, eight of which did 
more or less execution, and the others either fell short or 
went over her and into the real estate of the island. Find- 
ing that resistence was useless, the Rusk was run ashore, 
and her crew saturated her cargo with inflammable fluids 
and applied the torch with such effect that in less than 
two hours she was burned to the water's edge. It was 
subsequently ascertained that her cargo, with which she 
had escaped out of Galveston, Texas, consisted of 500 
bales of cotton. Had she been captured the prize would 
have been of great value. The firing into this vessel, 
within a marine league of foreign soil, gave rise to inter- 
national complications, and reparation being demanded 
by Spain, the Commander of the Montgomery was ordered 
under arrest, and was afterwards tried by court-martial 
at Charlestown Navy Yard and dismissed from the ser- 
vice. Later, however, he was restored to duty and ren- 
dered valuable service.'' 

Fifty-nine of the present members of the Post bear 
honorable scars from wounds received in action, 39 of 
whom were wounded once each; 12 twice each; 6 three 



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times and 2 four times. Of these wounds, 48 were of a 
severe nature and 41 slight. We have one member who 
received two severe wounds in the same battle, one 
musket ball entering his left hip and lodging in the right 
groin, and the other shot resulting in the loss of his left 
arm. We have five members who received a severe and 
slight wound each in the same engagement. We have 
one member who received, at Gettj^sburg, a distressing 
wound in the left leg; recovering and returning to duty 
he was again severely wounded in almost the same place, 
at the battle of the Wilderness. Five different members 
carry scars from saber cuts, one of whom received at the 
same time a musket ball through the right shoulder. 
One member was bayoneted by a rebel guard while a 
prisoner of war at Salisbury, ^". C. One member had a 
musket ball pass entirely through his body from the left 
to right side, and one Avas shot through the body .on the 
right side. Six members each lost an eye while in the 
service, one of whom had his jaw broken by the same ball, 
which also passed through his tongue and roof of his 
mouth. Three lost an arm each. One instance is known 
of a member of the Post severely wounded at the battle of 
Gaines' Mill, June 27th, 1862, through the shoulder and 
back and rendered entirely helpless, remaining on the 
field six days and nights before being succored by the 
enemy into Avhose hands our wounded had tallen. For 
fourteen months he was unable to bear the weight of his 
body on his lower limbs. Intelligence of the battle having 
reported him being among the killed, public funeral ser- 
vices were held in this city and the family w^ent into 
mourning over his supposed death. Numerous instances 
are recorded of clothing and blankets being perforated 
with musket balls, and one member is the pt ssessor of a 
highly-prized Avar relic in a pocket knife Avhich was 
broken into pieces but stopped a rebel bullet and saved 



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him from a serious if not fatal wouud. The front was not 
always the place of danger, as an instance is reported of 
one non-combatant member whose duty it was to look 
after the spiritual welfare of his regiment, who was 
kicked by a horse, and for a year thereafter could get 
about only with the aid of crutches. We have several 
members who apparently bore a charmed life in battle, 
who served for three and four years in regiments noted 
for having experienced some of the hardest fighting of 
the war, and who passed through all unscathed, and were 
never sick or absent a day from their commands. In this 
connection it is on record that a member of this Po&t 
while serving as Surgeon of his regiment, attended on the 
field at the battle of Blackburn's Ford, Ya., July 18th, 
18G1, the first Michigan soldier wounded in the war, and 
that he amputated the arm of a Michigan soldier at Bull 
Run, Va., July 21st, ISGl, the first amputation in a Michi- 
gan regiment in tlie war. He also had the distinction of 
attending at Clover Hill, Appomattox Co., Ya., April 9, 
1865, the last wounded Michigan soldier of the war.* 

Thirty-six members of the Tost have been prisoners of 
war, two of whom were captured twice, and one was 
taken three different times. Of the total number cap- 
tured, two were rescued by our own troops immediately 
thereafter; twelve were paroled at the time of capture, or 
soon after— one of whom has never, to his knowledge, 
been exchanged— and seven escaped within twenty-four 
hours after being taken. One captured while scouting 
under orders, after being detained four hours induced 
his captors, the entire picket-post, consisting of a Ser- 
geant and five private soldiers, to enter our lines with 
him, under promise that they should be cared for and 
sent north. Seventeen served terms in southern prisons, 
being finally paroled or exchanged, as follows: One cap- 

* Michigan in thp Wfir. 



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tured at Clitmt'ellor.sville jjassed fifteen days at Libby 
Prison, Eichmond; two captured at Gaines' Mill, both 
severely wounded, were also guests at Libby for thirty 
days; one taken at Chiekamauga was first confined at 
Libby but was finally removed to Belle Isle, fiom whence 
he made his escape, and after five days' sufferings and 
thrilling adventures reached our lines near Williams- 
burg, his term of imprisonment being three months; one 
was severely wounded and captured at Spottsylvania 
and remained four months in a Richmond hospital; one 
taken by Mosby while reconnoitering near the North 
Anna Elver and sojourned for five months in Anderson- 
ville, Gordonsville, Salisbury and Millen prisons; one 
who fell into the enemy's hands on the coast of Texas 
spent over seven months at Houston and Camp Ford 
Tyler, Texas, and was finally exchanged at the mouth of 
the Eed Eiver, La.; one captured at Cold Harbor passed 
seven months and eleven daj^s at Andersonville, Millen 
and Salisbury; one wounded and a prisoner at the Wilder- 
ness, was taken to Andersonville to remain seven and 
one-half months; one severely wounded and captured at 
the battle of the Wilderness was confined at Anderson- 
ville for seven months and at Florence two months; one 
who was a prisoner at First Bull Eun, and divided the 
succeeding ten mouths between a Eichmond Tobacco 
Factor}^, Castle Pinckney, Charleston Jail, Columbia Jail 
and Libby; one who charged too near the enemy's lines 
in the cavalry fight at Yellow Tavern, and paid the pen- 
alty bv taking an enforced excursion south and remained 
for the following ten months and eleven days in the 
prisons of Libby, Macon, Savannah, Charleston and 
Columbia ; one who was enveloped within the Confederate 
lines in the first charge at Petersburg, and passed the 
succeeding ten months and two days resting at Anderson- 



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\ille, Milan, Savannah, Hhukshire, Thoinasville, and 
again at Anderson ville; one who was twice severely 
wounded in a cavalry skirmish near Upperville, Va., and 
left for dead upon the field, had one year and ten days in 
which to lament his hard fate whiling away the time at 
Libby, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston and 
Columbia; another who was one of five different members 
of this Tost who fell into the hands of the enemy at 
Chickamauga, and sojourned for three months at Elch- 
mond, five months at Danville, and four months at An- 
dersouville. While being removed from there with a 
large number of other ])rison(n's, he made his escape as 
the train halted at Macon, and after twenty-one days and 
nights of most trying hardshijis and several narrow 
escapes from recai)ture, finally reached the Union lines 
near Atlanta. Starting from there a few days later to 
rejoin his regiment, then near Chattanooga, the train on 
which he had taken ])assage was fired into, tiirown from 
the track and burned near Marietta by a scouting force 
of rebels. Fourteen on the train were killed, and all but 
six of the balance were captured. After an exciting 
chase he finally eluded his pursuers and found his way 
to a stockade occu])ied by Union troops, and three daj^s 
later reached his regiment. While making his w^ay 
within the enemy's lines from Macon to Atlanta, and in 
hiding near the latter place, he witnessed the crossing of 
Hood's Army to the nortli side of the Chattahoochie 
River on a pontoon bridge. Reaching our lines on tte 
morning of the second day thereafter, he at once reported 
the fact to Gen. Kilpatrick, and believes that it was this 
positive information of the northward movement of Hood 
that caused Cren, Sherman to order the reinforcement of 
the small garrison at Allatoona Pass, and which arrived 
just in time to successfully defend the place against the 
vigorous assaults of a division of the enemy, and save the 



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three million rations stored there. What would have be- 
come of the "March to the Sea" had Allatoona been lost, 
with the Confederate Army in Sherman's rear and de- 
stroying the only railroad over which a fresh store of 
provisions could be accumulated? Another member 
was captured at the evacuation of Harrison's Landing, 
and a second time became a prisoner of w^ar at the battle 
of the Wilderness. Eighteen months of his term of en- 
listment Avas passed in prisons at Petersburg, Salisbury, 
Richmond, Lynchburg, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, 
Charleston, and Florence; still another was cap- 
tured during the first day's fighting at Chicka- 
mauga, and suffered the horrors of many southern 
prisons during the succeeding year and a half. 
He was first confined on Belle Isle and in "Number 
Four Prison,'' Richmond, Va. In December he was trans- 
ferred to Danville, Va., and soon after arrival there was 
attacked with small-pox and removed Avith other prisoners 
to an old stable where many died from the disease and 
exposure. In the spring of 1864 he Avas shipped to An- 
dersonville, Ga., and in the ensuing fall was sent to Flor- 
ence, S. C. He remained in the stockade at that place 
until March, 1865, Avhen he Avas placed AA'ith a large num- 
ber of other prisoners in freight cars bound for Salisbury, 
N. C. Escaping from the train Avhile en route, he took 
refuge in a SAvamp, and finally succeeded in reaching the 
Union pickets near Wilmington, N. C. While confined at 
Danville and again at Florence he attempted to escape, 
but in each instance was recaptured. 

Onr membership includes past officers in the Grand 
Army of the Republic as folloAvs: One Senior Vice Com- 
mander-in-Chief, one National Adjutant-General, one 
Assistant Adjutant-General, Iavo Department Com- 
manders, one Department Quartermaster-General, and 
fourteen Post Commanders. It embraces also one mem- 
ber of Congress, two Judges of the State Supreme Court, 



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an ex-Secretary of State, and the State Adjutant-General. 
The city government is represented in the Mayor, an ex- 
Mayor, an ex-President of the Common Council, one Al- 
derman and three ex-Aldermen, a member of the Board 
of Public Works, two members of the Water Commission, 
a member of the Board of Inspectors of the House of 
Correction, two members of the Poor Commission, one 
Park and Boulevard Commissioner, the Secretary of the 
Board of Education, the Secretary of the Board of Water 
Commissioners and the Chief Engineer of the Water 
Works, City Engineer, Fire Marshal, City Accountant, 
Secretary of the Police Commission, Superintendent of 
Police, one Captain and one Sergeant of Police, one De- 
tective, also an ex-Prosecuting Attorney of the county. 
We have one United States Army Engineer Officer, one 
United States Naval Officer and Lighthouse Inspector, 
one United States Marine Hospital Surgeon, one United 
States Harbor Superintendent, one United States Col- 
lector of Customs, three Deputy Collectors, one Special 
Agent United States Treasury, and one Deputy United 
States Marshal. The occupation of other members is as 
follows: MerchantSj^ 26; manufacturers, 24; salesmen 
and clerks, 14; bookkeepers, accountants and stenog- 
raphers, 5; lawyers, 8; physicians, 3; dentists, 1; drug- 
gists, 2; journalists, editors and publishers, 5; engravers 
and printers, 3; civil engineers and surveyors, 2; railroad 
superintendents, paymasters, and passenger agents, 5; ex- 
press messengers, 1; bank cashiers, 2; trustee, 1; brokers, 
2; president life insurance company, 1; insurance general 
agents, 7; pine land and real estate dealers, 4; builders, 
contractors and pavers, 4; painters and decorators, 2; 
stock breeder, 1; laundrymen, 1; and last, but not least, 
one cemetery superintendent to provide for each of us a 
suitable resting place when "the drum with muffled beat 
shall sound the Inst tattoo." 



106 



OFFICERS 189G. 



Commander Charles Dupont. 

Senior Vice-Commander Charles B. Foote. 

Junior Vice-Commander William H. Baxter. 

Adjutant James T. Beadle. 

Quartermaster Jacoh Bristol. 

Surgeon Wm. H. H. Hutton. 

Chaplain John W. Andrews. 

Oflacer of the Day Charles G. Hampton. 

Officer of the Guard Thomas P. Jones. 

Sergeant Major Nicholas Woods. 

Quartermaster Sergeant Charles C. Snedeker. 



PAST OFFICERS OF THE POS'I'. 



1887. 1888. 

Commander, Henry M. Duffleld. Commander, Henry M. Diiffield. 

S. V. Oom'dr, George H. Hopkins. S. V. Com'dr, George H. Hopkins. 

J. V. Com'dr, Hazen S. Pingree. J. V. Com'dr, William S. Green. 

1889. 1890 and 1891. 

Commander, George H. Hopkins. Commander, William S. Green. 

S. V. Com'dr, William S. Green. S. V. Com'dr, Leverette N. Case. 

J. V. Com'dr, Leverette N. Case. J. V. Com'dr, James T. Sterling. 

1892. 1893. 

Commander, Lewis H. Chamberlin. Commander, Everard B. Welton. 

S. V. Com'dr, Ziba B. Graham. S. V. Com'dr, Thomas S. McGraw. 

J. V. Com'dr, Oscar R. Looker. J. V. Com'dr, Frank C. Trowibiidge. 

1894. 1895. 

Commander, Thos. A. Wadsworth. Commander, Leverette N. Case. 

S. V. Com'dr, Chas. C. Chad wick. S. V. Com'dr, James T. Sterling. 

J. V. Com'dr, George T. Jack. J. V. Com'dr, Albert E. Bigelow. 



107 

KOS'I'Kli OF MEMBERSHIP. 



Con-eec-tecl tu December, 1895. 

Abbott Horace R 1st L't & Adj't. . 180th Ohio Infantry. 

Alexander George W Captain 1st Mich. Cavalry. 

Anderson Fred'k P 1st Dieut 181st Ohio Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Andrews John W Captain 2nd U. S. C. Infantry. 

Avery William Private Chicago Board of Trade Battery. 

Bassett Heber L Corporal 8th Conn. Infantry. 

Baxter William H Seaman U. S. Navy. 

Beach Rodney W 1st Dieut 10th Mich. Cavalry. 

Beadle James T Sergeant 1st Mich. Battery. 

Bigelow Albert E Sergeant 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Blain Alexander W Private 92nd N. Y. Infantry. 

Brand Charles R 1st Lieut 9th Mich. Infantry. 

Brandon Calvin K Captain 14th Illinois Infantry. 

Briscoe Benj. F Captain 23rd Mich. Infantry. 

Bristol Jacoib 1st Dieut 5th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Capt. U. S. V. 

Brown Robert H Private 132nd Ohio Infantry. 

Buehler John Private 5th Ohio Cavalry. 

Burlage Gottlieb Q. M. Sergt 10th Mich. Battery. 

Burroughs Samuel W. . . Sergeant 15th Mich. Infantry. 

Candler Edwin A Sergt.-Major ... 8th Mich. Battery. 

Case Leverette N Captain 1st Mich. S. S. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Chadwick Charles C Captain 27th Ohio Infantry. 

Chamberlin Lewis H.. . . 1st L't & Adj't. . 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Chandler George W Captain 8th Mich. Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Chope Charles H 2nd Lieut 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Clark Alexander M Captain 72nd N. Y. Infantry. 

Clark Ransom B Private 9th Ohio Battery. 

Coleman Silas B Acting Master. . U. S. Navy. 

Creusere Charles Private 1st N. Y. Engineers. 

Daly James W Corporal Chicago Board of Trade Battery. 

Davenport Francis O Lieut. Com U. S. Navy. 

Davidson Edward R 1st Lieut 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Denier John Private 14th Mich. Infantry. 

Devendorf Chas. A Surgeon 48th N. Y. Infantry. 

Dickinson Julian G 1st L't & Adj't. . 4th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Dingwall George 2nd Lieut 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Dixon Sidney B Musician 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Dodsley William R Captain 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Dufneld Henry M 1st L't & Adj't. . 9th Mich. Infantry. 

Dupont Charles Captain 13th Mich. Battery. 



108 



Edwards Albert M. .... .Lieut-Colonel.. 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Evarts Charles R Corporal 148th N. Y. Infantry. 

Farnum Herbert C Private 4th Mich. Cavalry. 

Fenton Eben B 2nd Lieut 20th Conn. Infantry. 

Fisher Gksorge W Corporal 9th Mich. Battery. 

Foote Charles E 1st Lieut 22nd Mich. Infantry. 

Fi-ancois Theophile Private 74t.h N. Y. Infantry. 

Gage William T Private 7th R. I. Cavalry. 

Gibbons Benjamin J Seaman U. S. Navy. 

Gibbons Robert Sergeant 24ith Mich. Infantry. 

Gilman George E 1st Lieut 1st N. H. Cavalry. 

Goebel Angust Captain 2nd Mich. Infantry. 

Goodale Silas W Sergeant 188th N. Y. Infantry. 

Gould Uriah Musician 15th Mich. Infantry. 

Graham Ziba B lat Lieut 16th Mich. Infantry. 

Grant Claudius B Lieut.-Colonel.. 20th Mich. Infantry. 

Green William S Private 11th Mass. Battery. 

Gridley William H Sergeant 16th Mich. Infantry. 

Griffin Levi T Cajptain 4th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Guthard Jacob Private 9th Mich. Infantry. 

Hampton Charles G. . . . Captain 15th N. Y. Cavalry. 

Hardy John C 1st Lieut 2nd Mich. Inf. & Bvt. Capt. U. S. V. 

Havens Cassius M Sergeant 1st N. Y. Dragoons. 

Heazlit William M Captain 1st Mich. Cavalry. 

Hill George W 1st Lieut 7th Mich. Cavalry. 

Hoenighausen Theo Private 16th Mich. Infantry. 

Hopkins George H Private 17th Mich. Infantry. 

Hopper George C Major 1st Mich. Infantry. 

Howard Wilbur Sergeant 2nd Berdan's S. S. 

Hudson Henry B Private 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Hull Charles B Captain 67th Illinois Infantry. 

Hurlburt Spencer N Private 3rd Mich. Cavalry. 

Hutton Wm. H. H Sergeant 104th 111. Infantry. 

Jack George T Sergeant 1st Mich. Battery. 

Jarves Deming 2nd Lieut 24th Mass. Infantry. 

Johnson Louis E Corporal 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Jones Thomas P Sergeant 2nd Mich. Infantry. 

Keen Joseph S Sergeant 13th Mich. Infantry. 

Kemberling Isaac O Private 11th Mich. Infantry. 

LeBeau McCurdy C Private 192nd Ohio Infantry. 

Letts Charles E Musician 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Lockwood Benj. C 2nd Lieut 54th Ky. Inf. & Capt. U. S. A. 

Long Charles D Private 8th Mioh. Infantry. 



109 



Looker Oscar R Private 18th U. S. Infantry. 

Lord Wm A 1st Lieut 13th Mo. Cavalry. 

Lowrie William C. D... 1st Lieut Slh Mich. Cavalry. 

Ludden Henry D Captain 13th Mich. Infantry. 

McCarty Robert A Private 14th Mich. Infantry. 

McEwan William W Com. Sergt 1st U. S. Infantry. 

McGraw Thomas S Corporal 16th Mich. Infantry. 

Maynard Charles W lat Lieut.; 20th Mich. Infantry. 

Meserve Lincoln R Paym'r's Cl'k. .. U. S. Navy. 

Metzger Ernst F Corporal 24th Illinois Infantry. 

Miller Robert 1st Lieut 89th Illinois Infantry. 

Mitchell Wm H Private 17th Vt. Infantry. 

Moore Edward C Private 59th Ohio Infantry.. 

Murphy James S Private 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Nadolleck Geo. L Corporal 15th N. Y. Artillery. 

Osmun Gilbert R Private 69th N. Y. Infantry. 

Patton Joseph T Caiptain 93rd Ohio Infantry. 

Pingi-ee Hazen S Private 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery. 

Polk Ralph L Musician 40th New Jersey Infantry. 

Potts James A Private 6th Mich. Cavalry. 

Preston Marvin Pi'ivate 1st Mich. Infantry. 

Rentz Alfred Sergeant 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Reynolds Charles W. . . . Private 5th New Hampshire Infantry. 

Rhines James Captain 88th Illinois Infantry. 

Ring Francis S Corporal 182nd Ohio Infantry. 

Ritter Charles H 1st L't & Ad j't . . 5th Mich. Infantry. 

Roberts Thomas R Captain 13th Ohio Infantry. 

Robinson Eugene Sergt.-Major ... 1st Mich. Infantry. 

Rogers Fordyce H 1st L't & Adj't. .1st Mich. Cavalry. 

Rogers J. Sumner Captain 31st Maine Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Rohns Herman Sergeant 2nd Mich. Infantry. 

Ruehle John V., Jr Captain 2nd Mich. Infantry. 

Schwinden Frank T. . . . Q. M. Sergt 12th Mich. Battery. 

Scranton James P Private 1st Mich. Cavalry. 

See Byron Private 20th N. Y. Cavalry. 

Seymour Arba M Captain 75th N. Y. Infantry. 

Sheley George A 2nd Lieut 12th Mich. Battery. 

Sidey James G Private 140th N. Y. Inf. 

Smith Gus F 1st Lieut lUth Ohio Infantry. 

Smith Wright D Private 1st Mich. Sharpshooters. 

Snedeker Charles C Private 122nd New York Infantry. 

Spitzley Joseph Private 2nd Kansas Infantry. 

Starkweather Chris. C . . Captain 9th Mich. Infantry. 

I 



110 



sterling James T Lieut.-Colonel.. 103rd Ohio Inf. & Bvt. Col. U. S. V. 

Stevenson Greorge E Musician 2nd Mich. Cavalry. 

Swail William H Private 10th Vermont Infantry. 

Thompson Charles H. . .Captain 1st U. S. C. Heavy Artillery. 

Thompson William G. . .1st liieut 6th New Jersey Infantry. 

Thorp Darius D 2nd Lieut 25th Mich. Infantry. 

Tracy D. Burnham Chaplain 1st Mich. Eng. & Mech. 

Trowbridge Frank C. . . Private 13th N. Y. Cavalry. 

Trowbridge Luther S. . . Colonel 10th Mich. Cav. & Bvt. Maj.-Gen. 

U.S. V. 

Tucker Phineas J Private 5th Mich. Cavalry. 

Tuttle Jonathan B Captain 102nd U. S. C. Infantry. 

Wadsworth Thomas S. . Private 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Wagstaff Robert M Act'g Ensign. . . U. S. Navy. 

Webb Reuben C Corporal 13th 111. Cavalry. 

Welton Everard B lat Lieut 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Wendell John H Hosp'l Stew'rd.. 115th N. Y. Infantry. 

Wethenbee George C Captain 23rd Mass. Inf. & Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

White Amos H Colonel 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 

Winslow George A 1st Lieut 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. 

Wipfler Charles W Landsman U. S. Navy. 

Woods Nicholas Corporal 13th Illinois Infantry. 

Yeomans Arthur Sergeant 81st N. Y. Infantry. 

Young William Musician 24th Mich. Infantry. 

Young William H Corporal 11th Mich. Cavalry. 



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112 

LOSSES BY BATTLES. 



(From "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War," Albany Pub- 
lishing Comipany, Albany, N. Y., by permission.) 

The Wouuiled iiicUides the Mortally Woiuuled, and the Missiuji' includes 

the Captured. 

Cate. Knsageiiients. Kil'd. W'ded. Mis'K. Ae'te. 

1861. 

June 10. Big Bethel, Va 18 53 5 76 

July 5. Carthage, Mo 13 31 . . 44 

11. Rich Mountain, W. Va 12 49 .. 61 

18. Blackburn's Ford, Va . 19 38 26 83 

21. First Bull Run, Va 470 1,071 1,793 3,334 

Aug. 10. Wilson's Creek, Mo 223 721 291 1,235 

Sept. 10. Carnif ex Ferry, W. Va 17 141 .. 158 

Oct. 3. Greenbrier River, W. Va 8 35 .. 43 

21. Ball's Bluff, Va 49 158 714 921 

Nov. 7. Belmont, Mo 80 322 99 501 

Dec. 13. Camp Alleghany, W. Va 20 107 10 137 

20. iDrainsville. Va 7 61 .. 68 

1862. 

Jan. 19. Mill Springs, Ky 39 207 . . 246 

Feb. 8. Roanoke Island. N. C 37 214 13 264 

15. Fort Donelson, Tenn 500 2,108 224 2,832 

Mar. 1-14. New Madrid. Mo 8 21 3 .32 

6-8. Pea Ridge, Mo 203 980 201 1,384 

14. New Berne, N. C 90 380 1 471 

23. Kernstown, Va 118 450 22 590 

Apl. 6-7. (l)Shiloh, Tenn 1,754 8,408 2,885 13.047 

19. Camden, S. C. (South Mills) 13 101 13 127 

May 9. Farmington, Miss 16 148 14 178 

5. Williamsburg. Va 456 1,410 373 2,239 

7. West Point, Va 48 110 28 186 

8. McDowell, Va 26 227 3 256 

" 16-17. Princeton, W. Va 23 69 21 113 

17. Russell House, Miss 10 31 . . 41 

23. Lewisburg, W. Va 13 53 7 73 

" 23-25. Front Royal and Winchester, Va.. 62 243 1,714 2,019 

27. Hanover Court House, Va 62 223 70 355 

31. Fair Oaks, Va. (Seven Pines) 790 3,594 647 5,031 

June 8. Cross Keys, Va 114 443 127 684 

9. Port Republic, Va 67 393 558 1,018 

16. Secessionville, SC. (James I'd).. .. 107 487 89 683 

25. Oak Grove Seven Days' . . 67 504 55 626 

26. Mechanicsville Battle, Va.... 49 207 105 361 

27. Gaines' Mill Killed, 1,734 . . 894 3,107 2,83B 6,837 

28. (2)Golding's Farm..Wd'd, 8,062.. 37 227 104 368 

29. (3)Savage Station... Mis'g. 6,053.. 80 412 1.098 1.590 

30. (4) Glendale .. 210 1.513 1,130 2 853 

July 1. Malvern Hill Total, 15,849.. 397 2,092 725 3,214 

7. Bayou Cache, Ark 6 57 . . 63 

13. Murfreesboro, Tenn 19 120 (5) 46 185 

Aug. 5. Baton Rouge, La 84 266 33 383 

9. Cedar Mountain, Va 314 1,445 622 2,381 

(1) Pittsburg Landing. 

(2) Includes loss at Garnett's Farm on the previous day. 

(3) Includes loss at Peach Orchard (or Allen's Farm) on same day. 

(4) Includes loss at White Oak Swamp, and Charles City Cross 
Roads. 

(5) Not including men surrendered in the capitulation. 



113 



Date. 
1862. 

Aug. 16-31. 

30. 

Sept. 10-11. 

" 12-15. 

14. 

14. 

" 14-16. 

17. 

19. 

" 19-20. 

3-4. 

5. 



8-9. 
22. 

27. 

5. 

7. 

7. 

12-17. 

13. 

28-29. 

30. 

31. 



Engagements. 



KilcJ. W'Ued. Mls'g. Ag'te. 



Oct. 



Dec. 



Feb. 
Mar. 

Apl. 



May 



1863. 
Jan. 7-8. 

11. 

11. 

30. 
■ 3. 

4-5. 

17. 

13. 

14. 

11-30. 

1. 

1-4. 

12. 

14. 

16. 

17. 

19. 

22. 
" 23Jul4. 

21. 

27. 
June 14. 
My26Jul9. 
June 5. 

6-8. 



(1) Manassas, Va 1,747 

Richmond, Ky 206 

Fayetteville, W; Va 25 

Harper's Ferry, Va 44 

Crampton's Gap, Md 113 

South Mountain, Md 325 

Munfordsville, Ky 15 

Antietam, Md 2,108 

luka, Miss 141 

Shepardstown Ford, Va 71 

Corinth, Miss 355 

Hatchie Bridge, Miss 46 

(2) Chaplin Hills, Ky 845 

Lawrenceburg, Ky. (Dog Walk) ... 8 

Pocotaligo, S. C 43 

Georgia Landing, ba 18 

Coffeeville, Miss • • 10 

Hartsville, Tenn • . 58 

Prairie Grove, Ark 175 

Kinston ; Goldsboro, N. C • • 92 

Fredericksburg, Va 1,284 

Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss •• 208 

Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn • ■ 27 

(3)Stone's River, Tenn ..1,730 

Springfield, Mo. . ; 14 

Hartsville, Mo • • 7 

Arkansas Post, Ark ■ ■ 134 

Deserted House, Va • • 23 

Fort Donelson, Tenn 14 

Thompson's Station, Tenn •. 48 

Kelly's Ford, Va 9 

Fort Bisland, La 40 

Irish Bend, La . 49 

Siege of Suffolk, Va • • 41 

(4)Magnolia Hills, Miss • . 131 

(5) Chancellorsville, Va • .1,606 

Raymond, Miss • . 66 

Jackson, Miss • ■ 42 

Champion's Hill, Miss •• 410 

Black River Bridge, Miss •• 39 

Assault on Vicksburg, Miss •• 157 

Assault on Vicksburg. Miss • • 502 

Vicksburg Trenches, Miss • • 147 

Plain's Store, La • • 15 

Assault on Port Hudson, La • • 293 

Assault on Port Hudson, La • • 203 

Port Hudson Trenches. La •• 211 

Franklin's Crossing, Va •• 9 

Milliken's Bend, La 118 



8,452 


4,263 


14,462 


844 


4,303 


5,353 


95 


190 


310 


173 


12,520 


12,737 


418 


2 


533 


1,403 


85 


1,813 


57 


4,076 


4,148 


9,549 


753 


12,410 


613 


. 36 


790 


161 


131 


363 


1,841 


324 


2,520 


493 


31 


570 


2,851 


515 


4,211 


20 


13 


41 


294 


3 


340 


74 


5 


97 


63 


41 


114 


204 


1,834 


2,096 


813 


263 


1,251 


487 


12 


591 


9,600 


1,769 


12,653 


1,005 


563 


1,776 


140 


70 


237 


7,802 


3,717 


13,249 


146 


5 


165 


64 


2 


73 


898 


29 


1.061 


108 


12 


143 


54 


10 


78 


247 


1,151 


1,446 


35 


40 


84 


184 




224 


274 


30 


353 


223 


2 


266 


719 


25 


875 


9,762 


5,919 


17,287 


339 


37 


442 


251 


7 


300 


1,844 


187 


2,441 


237 


3 


279 


777 


8 


942 


2,550 


147 


3,199 


613 


9 


769 


71 


14 


100 


1,545 


157 


1,995 


1,401 


162 


1,766 


390 




601 


48 




57 


310 




428 



(1) Includes Bristoe Station, Groveton, Gainesville, Chantilly and 
the Rappahannock. 

(2) Known also as Perryville. 

(3) Includes loss at Knob Gap December 26th, and at Jefferson 
December 30th: also losses January 1-2, 1863. 

(4) Port Gibson, Miss. 

(5) Includes loss at Marye's Heights and Salem Church, viz: 493 
killed, 2,710 wounded, 1,497 missing. Also lost at Fitzhugh Crossing. 



Date. Engagements. Kll'd. WJed. Mis'g. Ag'te. 

1863. 

June 9. (*) Beverly Ford, Va 81 403 

" 13-15. Winchester, Va 95 348 

17. (*) Aldie, Va 50 131 

19. (*) Middleburg, Va 16 46 

21. (*) Upperville, Va 12 130 

21. La Fourche Crossing, La 8 40 

22. Hill's Plantation, Miss 10 9 

" 24. Hoover's Gap, Tenn 27 177 

25. Liberty Gap, Tenn. 42 232 

27. (1) Shelby ville, Tenn 15 64 

July 2-26. Morgan's Raid, Ky 19 47 

4. Helena, Ark 57 146 

9-16. Jackson, Miss 129 762 

30. (*) Hanover, Pa 19 73 

1-3. Gettysburg, Pa 3,070 14,497 

6. (*)Hager&town, Md 19 50 

6. (*)Williamsport, Md 14 37 

7-9. (*) Boonsborough, Md 8 54 

11. (*) Hagerstown, Md 5 31 

12. Funkstown, Md . 14 77 

14. (*) Falling Waters, Md . 31 58 

16. (*) Shepardstown. Va 8 72 

11. Assault on Fort Wagner, S. C... .. 49 123 

18. Assault on Fort Wagner, S. C... 246 880 
— . Siege of Fort Wagner, S. C ■ • 71 278 

13. Donaldsonville, La 56 223 

21. (*) Manassas Gap, Va 9 12 

23. Wapping Heights, Va 20 83 

Aug. 1. (*) Brandy Station, Va 21 104 

" 26-27. (*) White Sulphur Springs, Va.. .. 26 125 

Sept. 19-20. Chickamauga, Ga • • 1,656 9,749 

29. Morganzia, La •• 16 45 

Oct. 14. Bristoe Station, Va • • 50 335 

20. Philadelphia, Tenn • ■ 7 25 

27. Wauhatchie, Tenn • • 75 300 

Nov. 3. Grand Coteau, La •• 25 129 

6. Droop Mountain, W. Va •• 30 88 

" 7. Rappahannock Station, Va •• 83 328 

7. Kelly's Ford, Va • • 6 39 

16. Campbell's Station, Tenn •• 31 211 

— . Siege of Knoxville, Tenn •■ 92 393 

" 23-25. (2) Chattanooga. Tenn • • 687 4,346 

27. Ringgold; Graysville, Ga •• 65 367 

" 26-30. Mine Run Campaign, Va •• 173 1,099 

Dec. 2. Walker's Ford, W. Va • • 9 43 

14. Bean's Station, Tenn • • 16 51 

29. Mossy Creek, Tenn • • 18 86 

1864. 

Feb. 1-3. Bachelor's Creek. N. C •• 16 50 

6. Morton's Ford, Va • • 10 208 

20. Olustee, Fla 193 1,175 

27. Buzzard's Roost, Ga •• 17 272 

Mar. 5. Yazoo City, Miss • • 21 89 

(*) Cavalry engagements. 

(1) Includes losses at Guy's Gap and Middleton. 

(2) Or Missionary Ridge; includes Orchard Knob, November 23d 
(loss about 200), and Lookout Mountain, November 24th (500). 



383 


866 


4,000 


4,443 


124 


305 


37 


99 


67 


209 




48 


28 


47 


2 


206 


1 


275 


10 


89 


8 


74 


36 


239 


231 


1,122 


123 


215 


5.434 


23,001 


194 


263 


69 


120 


18 


80 


13 


49 


6 


97 


32 


121 


24 


104 


167 


339 


389 


1,515 


9 


358 


186 


465 


8 


29 




103 


20 


145 


67 


218 


4,774 


16,179 


453 


514 


161 


546 


447 


479 


8 


383 


562 


716 


1 


119 


6 


417 




-15 


74 


316 


202 


687 


349 


5,382 




432 


381 


1,653 


12 


64 


48 


115 


5 


109 


280 


346 


42 


262 


460 


1,828 




289 


21 


131 



113 

Eng-agements. Kll'd. Wded. Mis'g. Ag'te. 

Okolona, Ark 16 74 

Sabine Cross Roads, La 200 900 

Pleasant Hill, La 100 700 

Plymouth, N. C 20 80 

Cane River, La 40 160 

"Mark's Mills, Ark 100 250 

Jenkins' Ferry, Ark 64 378 

Alexandria, La 23 67 

(1) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 1,458 7,436 

(2) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 1,125 5,740 

(3) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 1,110 5,915 

(4) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 453 2,318 

(5) Atlanta Campaign, Ga 277 1,413 

Wilderness, Va 2,246 12,037 

(6) Spottsylvania, Va 2,725 13,416 

Port Walthall: Chester Sta., Va. . . 48 256 

Arro-wfield Church, Va 36 188 

Drewry's Bluff, Va • • 390 2,380 

(7) Ware Bottom Church, Va 103 796 

Bermuda Hundred, Va 18 89 

(*) Kautz's Cavalry Raid, Va 14 60 

Cloyd's Mountain, W. Va • . 126 585 

(*) Yellow Tavern, Va 35 142 

(*) Meadow Bridges, Va • - 15 128 

Newmarket. Va 93 482 

Bayou Glaize, La • • 60 300 

North Anna, Va 186 942 

Totopotomoy. Va 101 518 

(*) Sheridan's Cavalry, Va. (Hawe's 

Shop, Hanover, etc.) - • HO 450 

Bethesda Church, Va 194 824 

(8) Cold Harbor, Va 1,844 9,077 

(*) Cavalry engagements. 

(1) Includes Rocky Face Ridge, May 5-9 (loss about 900); Resaca, 
May 13-15 (3,000): New Hope Church, May 25 (1,000); Dallas. May 28-31 
(1,800); Pickett's Mills, May 27 (1,900); Adairsville, Cassville, Rome Cross 
Roads, etc. 

(2) Includes Dallas, June 1-4 (900); Pine Mountain. June 14-19 (1,- 
100); Gulp's House, June 27 (700); Kenesaw Mountain, June 20-30 (1,200); 
Assault on Kenesaw, June 27 (3,000); Lattimore's Mill, Powder Springs, 
etc. 

(3) Includes Nickajack Creek, July 25 (450): Chattahoochie, July 6- 
10 (850); Peach Tree Creek, July 20 (2,200); Atlanta, July 21-22 (4.200); 
Ezra Chapel, July 28 (850); and others. 

(4) Includes Utoy Creek, August 5-6 (800); and Siege of Atlanta. 

(5) Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. 

(6) Includes Alscp's Farm. May 8 (loss about 1,800); Po River, Lau- 
rel Hill, and Upton's Charge, May 10 (5,000); Hancock's Assault, The 
"Angle," and general attack of May 12 (8.500); Spottsylvania, May 18 
(800); Fredericksburg Pike, May 19 (1,400); Todd's Tavern, Corbin's 
Bridge, Ny River, Guiena Station, etc. 

(7) Bermuda Hundi-ed. 

(8) Includes assault of Sixth and Eighteenth Corps, June 1; also 
losses of Fifth and Ninth Corps at Bethesda Church on June 2d and sub- 
sequently; also Cavalry Corps at Cold Harbor, May 31 and June 1; also 
losses in the trenches at Cold Harbor. June 4-14. 



Date. 


1864. 


Apl. 


3. 


" 


8. 


" 


9. 


" 


17-20. 


" 


23. 


" 


25. 


" 


30. 


May 


1. 


" 


5-31. 


June 


1-30. 


July 


1-31. 


Aug. 


1-31. 


Sept. 


1. 


May 


5-7. 


" 


8-21. 


" 


6-7. 


" 


9-10. 


" 


12-16. 


" 


18-20. 


" 


21-31. 


" 


7-16. 


" 


9-10. 


" 


11. 


" 


12. 


" 


15. 


" 


18. 


" 


23-27. 


" 


28-31. 


" 


25-30. 


June 


1. 


" 


2-4. 





90 


1,800 


2.900 


300 


1,100 


1,500 


1,600 




200 


100 


450 


86 


528 


21 


111 


405 


9,299 


665 


7,530 


2,694 


9,719 


466 


3,237 


212 


1,902 


3,383 


17,666 


2.258 


18,399 


70 


374 


19 


243 


1,390 


4,160 


49 


948 


21 


128 


31 


105 


34 


745 


82 


259 


27 


170 


256 


831 




360 


165 


1,293 


52 


671 


96 


656 


348 


1,366 


1,816 


12,737 



116 



Date. Engagements. Kil'd. 

1864, 

June 1-14. Bermuda Hundred, Va 25 

" 5. Piedmont, Va 130 

" 10. Brice's Cross Roads, Miss 223 

" 17-18. Lynchburg, Va 100 

" 11-12. (*) Trevilian Station, Va 102 

21. (*) White House, Va 10 

24. (*) St. Mary's Church, Va 29 

" 15-19. Petersburg Assault, Va 1,688 

22. (1) Jerusalem Road, Va 142 

" 22-29. (*) Wilson's Raid, Va 71 

" 20-30. Petersburg Trenches, Va 112 

July 2. Fort Johnson, S. C 19 

5-7. John's Island, S. C 16 

" 9. Monocacy, Md 98 

12. Fort Stevens, D. C 54 

13. Tupelo, Miss 85 

18. Island Ford, Va 65 

20. Carter's Farm, Va 37 

24. Winchester, Va 134 

" 26-29. Strawberry Plains, Va 62 

30. Petersburg Mine, Va 504 

1-31. Petersburg Trenches, Va 349 

Aug. 11. (*) White Post, Va 30 

" 14-16. Deep Bottom, Va 327 

" 18-20. Weldon Railroad, Va 251 

24. Halltown, Va 9 

25. Ream's Station, Va 140 

25. (*) Smithfield, Va 20 

26. Halltown, Va 30 

29. (*) Smithfield, Va 10 

1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 158 

Sept. 3. Berryville, Va 30 

19. Opequon, Va. (Winchester) 697 

22. Fisher's Hill, Va 52 

26. (*) Fort Davidson, Mo 28 

28. (3) Chaffin's Farm, Va 383 

30. (4) Poplar Spring Church, Va 187 

1-30. (5) Petersburg Trenches, Va 74 

Oct. 2. (*) Saltville, Va 54 

" 5. Allatoona Pass, Ga 142 

" 7. Darbytown Road, Va 49 

9. (*) Tom's Brook; Woodstock, Va... 9 

13. (*) Strasburg, Va 30 

13. Darbytown Road, Va 36 

19. Cedar Creek, Va 644 

21. (*) Little Blue, Mo 18 

" 22. (*) Independence, Mo 14 

26. (*) Decatur, Ala 10 



W'ded. 


Mis'g. 


Ag'te. 


134 


98 


257 


650 




780 


394 


1,623 


2,240 


500 


100 


700 


470 


435 


1,007 


51 


22 


83 


188 


122 


339 


8,513 


1,185 


11,386 


654 


2,166 


2,962 


262 


1,119 


1,452 


506 


151 


769 


97 


135 


251 


82 


12 


110 


579 


1,282 


1,959 


319 




373 


563 


29 


677 


301 


56 


422 


175 


30 


242 


678 


391 


1,203 


340 


86 


488 


1,881 


1,413 


3,798 


1,587 


145 


2,081 


70 


200 


300 


1,851 


721 


2,899 


1,148 


2,879 


4,278 


37 


16 


62 


529 


2,073 


2,742 


61 


10 


181 


141 




171 


90 




100 


623 


296 


1,077 


182 


100 


312 


3,983 


338 


5.018 


457 


19 


528 


56 


100 


184 


2.299 


645 


3.327 


900 


1.802 


2,889 


304 


424 


802 


190 


104 


348 


352 


212 


706 


253 


156 


458 


67 




76 


144 


40 


214 


358 


43 


437 


3,430 


1,591 


5,665 


83 


14 


115 


58 


11 


83 


45 


100 


155 



(*) Cavalry Engagements. 

(1) Known, also, as Weldon Railroad and Williams' Farm. 

(2) Includes operations on the north side of the James. 

(3) Known, also, as Peeble's Farm. 

(4) Known, also, as Peeble's Farm and Pegram's Farm. 

(5) Includes operation s on the north side of the James. 



Ill 

Date. EnsageiiiculK. Kil'd. W'ded. Mis'g. Ag'te. 

1864. 

Oct. 27. (1) Boydton Road, Va 166 

27. Darbytown Road; Fair Oaks, Va. . . 118 
1-31. (2) Petersburg Trenches, Va 159 

Nov. 22. (*) Rood's Hill, Va . 18 

22. Griswoldville, Ga . 10 

30. Honey Hill, S. C . 66 

30. Franklin, Tenn 189 

1-30. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va '>7 

Dec. 5. Murfreesboro, Tenn 30 

6-9. Deveaux's Neck, S. C 39 

13. Fort McAllister, Ga 24 

15-16. Nashville, Tenn 387 

18. Marion, Va 18 

28. (*) Egypt Station, Miss 23 

1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 66 

1865. 

Jan. 15. Fort Fisher, N. C 184 

1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 51 

Feb. 3-9. River's Bridge, S. C 18 

5-7. (3) Dabney's Mills, Va 232 

10. James Island, S. C 20 

11. Sugar Loaf Battery, N. C 14 

20. Town Creek, N. C 30 

1-28. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 43 

Mar. 6. National Bridge, Fla 22 

10. Wilcox's Bridge, N. C 80 

" 10. Monroe's Cross Roads, N. C 19 

16. Averasboro, N. C 77 

19. Bentonville. N. C 191 

25. Fort Stedman, Va 68 

25. Petersburg, Va 103 

29. Gravelly Run, Va 55 

31. White Oak Road, Va 177 

31. (*) Dinwiddle Court House, Va. . . . 67 

1-31. (2) Siege of Petersburg, Va 58 

Apl. 1. Five Forks, Va 124 

2. (*) Selma, Ala 42 

2. Fall of Petersburg, Va 296 

3. (*) Namozin Church, Va 10 

5. (*) Amelia Springs, Va 20 

6. Sailor's Creek, Va 166 

7. Farmville, Va 58 

8. Spanish Fort, Ala 100 

9. Fort Blakely, Ala 113 

16. (*) Columbus; West Point, Ga 13 



1.028 


564 


1,758 


787 


698 


1,603 


520 


633 


1,312 


52 


10 


80 


52 




G2 


645 




711 


1,033 


1,104 


2,326 


258 


108 


423 


175 




205 


390 


200 


629 


110 




134 


2,-558 


112 


3,057 


58 




76 


88 


7 


118 


278 


269 


613 


749 


22 


955 


269 


81 


401 


70 


4 


92 


1,062 


186 


1,480 


76 




96 


114 




128 


154 




184 


257 


72 


372 


46 


13 


81 


421 


600 


1,101 


61 


103 


183 


477 




554 


1,168 


287 


1,646 


337 


506 


911 


864 


209 


1.176 


306 


22 


383 


1,134 


556 


1.867 


354 




421 


272 


98 


43^: 


706 


54 


884 


270 


7 


319 


2,565 


500 


3,361 


85 




95 


96 




116 


1,014 




1,180 


504 


9 


571 


695 


/. . 


795 


516 




62^^ 


53 




66 



(*) Cavalry engagements. 

(1) Known, also, as Hatcher's Run. 

(2) Includes operations on the north side of the James. 

(3) Known, also, as Hatcher's Run. 



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